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About Madeline Miller
See more books from this AuthorA few passages coil toward melodrama, and one inelegant line after a rape seems jarringly modern, but the spell holds fast. Expect Miller’s readership to mushroom like one of Circe’s spells. Miller makes Homer pertinent to women facing 21st-century monsters.
Read Full Review of Circe | See more reviews from KirkusThrough her elegant, psychologically acute prose, Miller gives us a rich female character who inhabits the spaces in between.
Read Full Review of Circe | See more reviews from Star TribuneIn spite of these occasional infelicities and awkwardnesses, “Circe” will surely delight readers new to the witch’s stories as it will many who remember her role in the Greek myths of their childhood: Like a good children’s book, it engrosses and races along at a clip...
Read Full Review of Circe | See more reviews from NY TimesIf you read this book expecting a masterpiece to rival the originals, you’ll be disappointed; Circe is, instead, a romp, an airy delight, a novel to be gobbled greedily in a single sitting.
Read Full Review of Circe | See more reviews from GuardianIt's a small detail, but it's the difference between a person of independence and skill, and some male dream of danger, foreignness, and sex, lounging with parted lips while she watches the horizon for ships.
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