It just feels so wonderful to inhabit that world of the illiad and the odyssey again! I adore the chapters about the Trojan women, they're quite brutal but you really relate to them. Everything is quite tragic anyway but that's part and parcel of the source material. I love how these women are brought to life, and I kept having Natalie Haynes voice/energy in my head since I listened to her podcast before I knew she was a writer. 

I didn't quite connect to the Calliope chapters, but I can see what the author was going for, it just didn't work for me. Personally I think the Penelope chapters were the weakest, which was extra disappointing because I always loved her. The way she just retells Odysseus' story with only a few lines about herself just didn't really add much of interest and was temporally very out of step with the rest of the book. I would have loved to have a bit more of an exploration of how it was for Penelope to be on her own but instead her chapters mainly focused on a retelling of the Odyssey.

I still really enjoyed the book though, and will try to read more from this writer!