”'A twisting tale of lust, love, loss and sacrifice, told in a style that melds modern snappiness with timeless atmosphere” - LoveReading March 2023 Debut of the Month ”'A sensual story about power and autonomy of self, and about how appeasing the gods means making painful choices” - The Bookseller One to Watch, A story overflowing with emotion and full of magic.”Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne and Elektra. ”A lovely, lyrical fantasy which takes the fate of the hanged maids of the Odyssey and weaves something brand new. This book will break your heart.’ – Grace Li Sunday Times bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief This is Greek tragedy at its best: sweeping in scope yet deeply intimate in characterization. ‘Gorgeous, tragic, and timeless, Underwood’s LIES WE SING TO THE SEA makes an age-old story feel new again. In Lies We Sing to the Sea, debut author Sarah Underwood delivers a thrilling and breathtaking tale that will enthral readers from the very first page as they are transported to the cursed shores of Ithaca.Ī reclamation of a story from thousands of years ago, Lies We Sing to the Sea is about love and fate, grief and sacrifice, and, ultimately, the power we must find within. Leto must kill the last prince of Ithaca. But when Leto awakens from her death on the shore of a long-forgotten island, its enigmatic keeper Melantho tells her that there’s only one way the curse can be broken. In the cursed kingdom of Ithaca, each spring brings the hanging of twelve maidens, a gift to the vengeful Poseidon. Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne and Elektra
A story overflowing with emotion and full of magic.’ ’A lovely, lyrical fantasy which takes the fate of the hanged maids of the Odyssey and weaves something brand new. ‘A lavish epic of power, vengeance, love and fate.’
Melantho is painted to be either moody or horny, she has so much interesting things to talk about but you don’t really hear anything.A fantasy romance, by dazzling new talent Sarah Underwood, inspired by Greek mythology and the tale of Penelope’s twelve hanged maids. There is no real explanation of why she falls for Mathias besides he is pretty and not a complete asshole? Don’t even get me started on how useless Mathias is throughout the whole book. I hate that Leto can just flip flop between the two without any real consequences.
There is a lot of time when I wish they would move in to more exciting parts or to skip the cringe dialogue. The girls whine and poor Mathias is stupid till the end. Now the bad, the characters are all weak. The concept of this 12 Maidens curse is very interesting and I wish there was more to it. There is a lot of wiggle room and creativity with that space and I think the author tried her best to fill it. I liked that we have multiple years apart from this great myth that almost everyone knows. The whole thing was odd but I will lead with what I liked.
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