I received an eARC of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I feel the same way about this book as I do about Claire Heywood's previous work, Daughters of Sparta. I appreciate the feminist lens through which the myth of Perseus is historicized and rewritten and am grateful for Heywood's thoughtful contextualization in her notes. By removing any mythological / fantastical elements from the story, however, we're left with a bleak retelling that depicts Perseus as irredeemable and the main women in his life--Danae and Andromeda--wholly without agency and unable to separate themselves from him. (Medusa's story is the most engaging, and she's the most complete person without Perseus, but her section is by far the shortest.) The writing is also, again, fine but doesn't add as much depth to the story as I was anticipating.