A worthy and well-researched follow-up to Saint's fantastic take on the myth of Ariadne, Elektra fashions sympathetic figures out of its proud, filially pious titular antiheroine and the two women with whom her fate is so firmly and tragically threaded together: her abhorred mother Clytemnestra, who seeks to settle the score of the murder of her firstborn, and the foreboding path that awaits the accursed Trojan princess-slash-prophetess Cassandra. As faithful to its source material as Elektra stays steadfast to her monster of a father, Elektra switches between the perspectives of this trio of misfortune-dogged women at the mercy of the malediction that haunts House Atreides; Saint's pointed prose doesn't shy away from the story's more appalling moments and atrocious acts, pinning down its sorry subjects' miserable and scathing sentiments as they are subjected to one horrifying wrongdoing after another with solemn, purgative precision to sum to a harshly and heartbreakingly human spiel that's hard to forget.

Thank you to NetGalley and Headline/Wildfire for kindly passing on this ARC! 💫