Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Collins publishers for the ARC!

I have been interested in Greek/Roman mythology since I was a little girl reading Percy Jackson for the first time.

Divine Might by Natalie Haynes is very informative in the ways of various goddesses while still being particularly witty. This is not your stereotypical, dry recounting of the same old stories you’ve heard a million times.

For example, when discussing how the goddess Hera became associated with the peacock that’s she’s so often depicted with, Haynes details how Zeus had turned a young nymph (that he’d assaulted) into a cow so that his wife wouldn’t know what he had done. Hera asked for this cow as a gift because she was suspicious and set the monster Argus, a hundred eyed creature to watch over the cow.

“She sets the monster Argus to watch over Io; he had a hundred eyes in his head, Ovid explains, which rest two at a time. If this seems like overkill - a ninety-eight eyed panopticon to check that one cow doesn’t get up to too much - then Hera’s escalating responses to Zeus’s infidelities are going to perplex you even further. Argus does indeed watch Io like fourty-nine hawks.”

I very much enjoyed Divine Might - it was an interesting break from fiction where I spend most of my time.

I screamed when I got the approval for this. I would read ANYTHING Natalie puts out in the world. Her reinterpretation of the Greek myths are always enjoyable and her knowledge knows no bounds. As someone who’s been obsessed with Greek mythology for as long as I can remember, I know in my heart Natalie will do them justice no matter what.