Wrath Goddess Sing
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Katherine Pucciariello
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Written by:
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Maya Deane
About this listen
Drawing on ancient texts and modern archeology to reveal the trans woman’s story hidden underneath the well-known myths of The Iliad, Maya Deane’s Wrath Goddess Sing weaves a compelling, pitilessly beautiful vision of Achilles’ vanished world, perfect for fans of Song of Achilles and the Inheritance trilogy.
The gods wanted blood. She fought for love.
Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the “prince” Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother, Athena, intervenes, transforming her body into the woman’s body she always longed for, and promises her everything: glory, power, fame, victory in war, and, most importantly, a child born of her own body. Reunited with her beloved cousin, Patroklos, and his brilliant wife, the sorceress Meryapi, Achilles sets out to war with a vengeance.
But the gods—a dysfunctional family of abusive immortals that have glutted on human sacrifices for centuries—have woven ancient schemes more blood-soaked and nightmarish than Achilles can imagine. At the center of it all is the cruel, immortal Helen, who sees Achilles as a worthy enemy after millennia of ennui and emptiness. In love with her newfound nemesis, Helen sets out to destroy everything and everyone Achilles cherishes, seeking a battle to the death.
An innovative spin on a familiar tale, this is the Trojan War unlike anything ever told, and an Achilles whose vulnerability is revealed by the people she chooses to fight…and chooses to trust.
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- Melissa Dahn
- 2022-08-03
This book changed me.
I'm not going to be able to stop thinking about Wrath Goddess Sing for quite some time. It's not the book it appears to be at first. It's not even the book it appears to be at second glance. There are layers atop the layers; mysteries laid under the mysteries. It's an unrestrained, merciless book of power and femininity and hunger.
The reader is phenomenal. The pronunciations of some names seemed strange at first, but I quickly warmed to them as yet another sign of the book's deep and exhaustive research. Her voicework is generally excellent - almost never did I wonder which character was speaking - and she reads with passion appropriate to the subject matter at hand.
I wish there were more books like this, and that there were more readers of Katherine's caliber.
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