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ODYSSEUS APPEARANCE. Also I love Penolope’s character in retellings dude. I can’t wait to read the Penelopiad from Margaret Atwood. In the Odyssey she is portrayed as this crying, incessant woman but in retellings, she’s given more credit to be clever and cunning as well as beautiful.

Also Clytemnestra hates Menelaus and I don’t think it’s totally deserved. Agamemnon I get but not Menelaus. We’ll see

Dude….

First off, Nestor??? Theseus (total dick by the way) but those name drops were awesome!!!

Meleager died for defending Atalanta against his uncles… oh my god. I feel so conflicted because he was cheating on his wife, but he did really love Atalanta, and he would’ve been Atalanta’s ruin…

Oh man…

I’m really loving this so far! A couple notes I have from reading this:

Atalanta’s lover - Melegaer - is a child of Ares, whose mom was given a vision that his life would cease when a log has fully burned up. Remind you of anyone? (Frank from HoO)

Also the argonauts find a prophet who’s name is Phineus and cannot eat due to Harpies eating all that is laid in front of him - Remind you of anything? (PJHoO-SoN)

It’s really good! I like it better than the first so far. It definitely is leading into being more “woke” if you will. I am enjoying the non-binary character Alex Fierro and his/her relationship with Magnus

Really good! There are some plot points that really hit and then some that are not as exciting. We’re getting a lot of team development. I will say despite me tiring of the “I’m afraid I’m gonna lose control” cliche, I feel like book is moving very fast at times. I am thinking this book was originally the 200(ish) hundred pages of extra content that Iron Flame was but was edited down and I think it suffers

Tons of Twist and Turns! I’m loving this so far! Has a lot of similarities to Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix

I forgot Talshib might be suspect, too. Due to the way that Formbi seems to be almost afraid but knowing of a conspiracy. His demeanor after the talk with Talshib and Drask could be because he's being influenced or persuaded to move against the two Jedi so the Chiss may have it to themselves. Although if that's the case, there may be an ulterior Political Chiss motive that had Formbi going along with it.

I have gotten to the plot of a secret sabeteur on the ship, and I believe Fel is innocent. I predict that... I actually have no idea. It could be Drask but that seems a little too obvious. It could be Grappler. A rogue Stormtrooper would be an interesting plot point. Frombi would also be interesting and unexpected. I'm really not sure who to suspect. I'm pretty confident it isn't Jean Jinzler

Luke and Mara are about to drown and he asks her to marry him. I love the action and everything going on but I don't see how that's at all related to what's going on. I understand the "well of we die, I want to be with you" trope but wow. I literally burst out laughing. Not a big fan of that, save it for the epilogue