John Wiswell’s Wearing the Lion
There are soooo many Greek myth retellings now that normally I wouldn’t bother, but Wiswell’s first novel was interesting and cool, and this grabbed me from the first line, which finds Hera calling Zeus her “dipshit husband” lol. Anyway, this is a very smart take on Heracles and his Twelve Labors, and of course Olympus and its gods, told in the alternating POVs of Hera and Heracles. I was totally a child way too into Greek mythology and really enjoyed this. It’s funny and tragic and has an amazing found family. I did think it was kind of slow, but nothing wrong with that! A/A-.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released in June.
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