You know what annoys me?
Myth retellings not doing complexity anymore.
They way publishing works now, everything has to be packaged and marketed with the help of clear short-hand popular tropes.
So here you have one of the richest, most emotionally complex Greek myths ever, and it keeps getting marketed as a "grumpy-sunshine, enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity romantasy!"
Seriously what the hell.
#storytelling #books #bookstodon #mythology
Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD
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