It was interesting seeing the difference in their views, how it drives them against one another because neither can let go of what they think is the right way to live.Ĭassandra is also in the book, to give some view of the Trojan War. She has a very different view on it to her mother as she idolises him and, in his absence, makes him into someone perfect. Really this is Clytemnestra’s book (as implied by her being the first one mentioned in the blurb), her story of grief and how her need for revenge clouds her remembrance that she has other children.Įlektra is then, probably, the secondary narrator.

Like with ARIADNE, this book might be called after one woman, but it’s a misnomer of a title as it’s really about three women and, in some respects, Elektra is the secondary narrator. I was not expecting ELEKTRA to be my final book of 2022! I was expecting it to be a paperback, but then I started a puzzle and my brain decided to be OK with an audiobook while doing that, and thus this was the last book I read in the year (I finished at about 5 to midnight!) But, can she escape the curse, or is her own destiny also bound by violence? The youngest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, Elektra is horrified by the bloodletting of her kin. She is powerless in her knowledge that the city will fall. Her husband raises a great army against them, and determines to win, whatever the cost.Ĭassandra, Princess of Troy, and cursed by Apollo to see the future but never to be believed when she speaks of it. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and the fickle nature of men and gods.Ĭlytemnestra, 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. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance.

Elektra book review