Medusa: The Wronged by J.J. KingMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Interesting Take On The Medusa Myth
I would probably give this 3.5 stars, if I could.
I wasn’t sure what to expect with this book, but I’d read a book about Medusa a few months ago that I enjoyed so I decided to try this one too. I’m glad I waited a while between the two Medusa books because this was very different.
In this book Medusa is an urban fantasy writer with a Facebook group, which made me smile. She lives with one of her sisters and has come to accept her lot as a woman with a head full of snakes. However, her third sister, who they haven’t seen in 35 years is in trouble and they have to help her.
Whilst trying to help her sister, Medusa meets her ex-lover, Poseidon, the man who she was cursed for loving. 2000 years have passed since their last meeting and Medusa doesn’t know how to handle it.
Whilst I enjoyed the plot, I just didn’t feel a connection to Medusa. The way she was written just didn’t resonate with me. She wasn’t a particularly sympathetic character and whilst a curse and losing her loved ones is horrible, she is still very self centred. It felt as if the author had got sucked into thinking purely about mythology and plot and the characters' personalities got left a little bit by the wayside.
There were also some minor editing problems that were relatively easy for me to skim across, with one exception - ANTI-chamber! Just NO, it’s an ANTE-chamber. An anti-chamber would be the opposite of a chamber, perhaps the outdoors. It’s a silly thing to make me snarl, but it is what it is!
I’m not sure I would read the next in the series. It wasn’t a bad book by any means, but I have a really big TBR list and there are lots on there that I want to read more than the next book in this series.
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