Elektra: The mesmerising story of Troy from the three women its heart

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She thinks the whole world revolves around her and HER pain and noooooooo one will ever relate to poor, poor, Elektra. A good book is when you immerse yourself into reading and are simply absorbed by the story, which is the case for me. More than anything else, reading Elektra made me want to revisit Madeline Miller’s superior The Song of Achilles, because those little moments wherein the women hear about the war stories only made me think , that’s the story I really want to be reading.

She can't understand that the God's are cruel, that maybe her father was wrong for all he did, and clouded by grief over his loss, her life becomes tainted with ending her mother's. Her predictions have branded her a Madwoman, and she is a Trojan pariah, even amongst her own royal family.ElektraThe youngest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, Elektra is horrified by the bloodletting of her kin. Clytemnestra is best known as the murderer of her husband, the leader of the Greeks, Agamemnon, as depicted in Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon, which is admittedly where I first encountered and fell in love with her.

The author does an excellent job of showing all the steps that led to the path this mother and daughter took and to the consequences that you know are inevitable. The sister of Helen, wife of Agamemnon - her hopes of averting the curse are dashed when her sister is taken to Troy by the feckless Paris. I mean I’m putting a spoiler up but does it count as a spoiler when these poems and plays have been around for over 2000 years? So I was very excited to read a new POV on Greek stories that I knew as well as learning some new ones I hadn’t experienced before.In Elektra, the author weaves the stories of Clytemnestra, Cassandra, and Elektra together, allowing us to witness events during the Trojan War from their perspective. Cassandra is the infamous princess of Troy who was given a cursed gift from Apollo wherein no one believes her prophecies, so where does she fit into this family drama?