Ariadne, Princess of Crete and daughter of the fearsome King Minos, grows up hearing stories of gods and heroes. But beneath the golden palace something else stirs, the hoofbeats and bellows echoing from the Labyrinth below. Every year its captive, the Minotaur – Ariadne’s brother – demands blood.
When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives as a sacrifice to the beast, Ariadne sees in him her chance to escape. But helping Theseus kill the monster means betraying her family and country, and Ariadne knows only too well that drawing the attention of the mercurial gods may cost her everything.
Let me tell you
In a world where women are nothing more than the pawns of powerful men, will Ariadne’s decision to risk everything for love ensure her happy ending? Or will she find herself sacrificed for her lover’s ambition?
Let me tell you the story of a righteous man (PROLOGUE).
(Wildfire, Paperback, 30 December 2021, 322 pages, borrowed from Irvine Library)
This is a new author for me. She writes a lot of Greek Mythology retellings which I love so I expect to read a lot more of her. This is a retelling of Ariadne, the daughter of cruel King Minos and the sister of the Minotaur. I thought this was well-written, engaging and thoroughly entertaining. I loved the world-building. I heard about this book through TikTok. I’d recommend this.
4/5
