Sarah B. Franklin (2)
Auteur van Daughter of Troy
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Daughter of Troy door Sarah B. Franklin
I liked this! I love the movie Troy and this goes right along with it. I like that it was told from Briseis's point of view and that you got to know where she came from and what happened to her after Achilles.
Hilariously bad. I'd give it one star but the giggling and snorting I did while reading this earns it another star. The parsnip/cucumber reference to the male anatomy had me rolling.
There seemed something a little off in this book. The tone, language, whatever. Let's start with the title. Briseis was daughter of Lyrnessos, not Troy. And using "Megaron" to mean palace - it's an archaeological term, and means something like "big room". There were other things that seemed odd, historically unjustified, giving the name of a goddess to a slave girl, for example. I guess she needed something greek-sounding.I did enjoy the first sections, Briseis growing up in Lyrnessos, her brothers, the bath attendant scenes. The author did do some research, which made the lapses more annoying.. But after Bienor was killed I lost interest.… (meer)
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