E.B Schulz’s Reviews > Circe > Status Update

I DID ITTTTTTT
I FINISHED THIS!!
these have been the longest 3 days of my LIFE. Alas, we are done here folks-- onto the next conquest we go!!

God. I'd love to see my sister try to get through this book.

She is not as hardheaded as me. She would stop reading it by the first third when she got bored, then spend the rest of her life promising one day she would finish it.

Someone will pay me for this. I don't know who, but someone will pay !!

Dude, fuck this. Fuck Apollo and fuck her dad and fuck everyone??? Circe is used and abused by everyone (I'm not even gonna talk about the glossed-over rape???) and there is no satisfaction to be brought by her overcoming it bc she does not!!! Miller is humiliating Circe... For the sake of humiliation?

WHO CARES ABOUT ODYSSEUS??? WOMP WOMP HE IS A *MAN* CIRCE

So... I'm starting to get a little disappointed :/

The prose is beautiful, Circe is an amazing character (at least she WAS on earlier chapters) but it's all very... Underwhelming?? Circe loooooves men (we've been through at least 5 lovers) but hates... Her own nymphs? She treats them as inconveniences. She never rises against the abuse of her siblings or rebel against the punishment of the gods. Alas, #Disappointed

I wanna DNF this. All of you guys giving this 5 stars are LIARSSSSS

Guys, I'm not gonna lie... It's starting to draaaaaag :/

Okay, so, really funny thing about me reading Circe right now, is that I'm ALSO reading Percy Jackson. On his series, I'm on the book where they go to the maze built my Daedalus, Icarus's dad, for the minotaur. But the minotaur is technically Circe's NEPHEW so we are getting the whole backstory on this book, too. Funny how life works!!

"Prometheus’s words, deep-running as roots, had waited in me all this time.

“We bear it as best we can,” I said."

The idea that Prometheus changed little Circe's life with a 2min encounter is sooooo 😭 he is dying once a day, he will never again know joy, and I think Circe, in some shape or form, is trying to honor that sacrifice as best she can