Kingdoms, empires, war, love (messed up ones), power, centred around a strong female lead. I felt emotionally removed from the characters because they felt cruel and unreasonable and so tortured that I couldn’t understand their motivations. But Casati did a great job creating the scene for the Assyrian empire at that time, and the reading experience was very immersive as a result. I still prefer Clytemnestra because the story and characters were more straight forward, compared to this one where there were a lot of characters and a lot of motivations and power dynamics and things happening all at once. Still a worthy read if you’re into Greek myths! (Although this isn’t Greek)