![]() ![]() The only issue I had was with the pacing at the beginning of Leto and Melantho’s quest. The setting is beautiful – from the idyllic encaged island of Pandou to the glamorous impoverished palaces of Ithica and its grief-stricken surrounding villages. ![]() Amazingly, she does this while maintaining an element of mystery in each character’s backstory. Underwood shows this cleverly by changing the first-person narrative. Every turn the novel takes leaves the reader hoping for each of the character’s happy endings, despite how impossible it may appear.Īnd for each character, it is indeed impossible to reach their own desires without demolishing anoth er’s. In unlikely ways, their paths intertwine into a nail-biting story that is impossible to resist. It follows the narrative of three characters: Leto, an oracle with a sliver of her mother’s powers, Melantho, imprisoned creature of Poseidon, and Mathias, an unfortunate prince over a cursed land. Lies We Sing to the Sea is a thrilling imagining of Penelope’s twelve hanged maids from Homer’s Odyssey getting vengeance on the kingdom that wronged them. ![]()
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