I'm listening to Circe through my library and hooooly, I'm absolutely blown away by this narrator. I think it's the mix of Madeline's poetic writing style and Perdita's beautiful, soothing delivery that just has me relishing this whole experience. I almost always listen to audiobooks at 1.2-1.5x speed, but I've loved this so much I'm actually listening to it at the normal pace. The audiobook was absolutely made better for her narration for me, and completely influenced my enjoyment of the whole story. I'll definitely be checking out more books narrated by Perdita in the future, I'm smitten <3
Has anyone else had an experience like this? Which book was it, and who narrated? I'm blown away by how much I've enjoyed this, I almost dont want to finish the book for how lovely the experience has been!
Ooooh Greek Mythology. I love you so. <3 Mythology in general has been one of those things that I have been fascinated with for my entire life.
And Madeline Miller…. well, let’s just say that The Song of Achilles had me in goddamn tears despite knowing how The Illiad ended. It is quite easily one of my very favorite audiobooks ever.
And so of course I was going to read Circe. Of course I was. That it is the r/Fantasy Book of the Month is awesome, but I’d have read it anyway. :D
So... not to spoil something from actually ancient literature for you, but for those unaware, Circe was the witch goddess whom, in The Odyssey, turned Odysseus’ men into pigs, became his lover, was convinced to turned the men back from pigs, and then had them all chill out on her sweet, sweet island of Aeaea for a year before giving them a prophecy about an Underworld journey they had to take, and then seeing them on their merry way. Not a minor character in that story, but not the focus of it.
This, like Song of Achilles is a retelling of Greek myth, and one of Homer's epics, though not as much the Odyssey as the life of one of the characters that features prominently in it. This is the story of Circe, the daughter of the Sun god/titan Helios and the nymph Perse. For years Circe lives among the gods as a powerless nymph. She is curious about many things, mortals included, and her curiosity for one in particular leads to something more than that. In her attempts to get around a vow not to lie with her mortal crush, she ends up turning him into a god, something that no other gods are known to be able to do. Then, she sort of... accidentally turns her rival for his affections into a horrible monster (who also features prominently in the Odyssey). This is when Circe learns that actually, she has powers that make her a witch. That’s something new among the gods. They can all do god things. But magic witchy things? That’s new.
Turns out that the gods, specifically Zeus, is not a huge fan of new magical powers that can negatively affect other gods and turn them into horrible monsters and what have you. And so Circe is exiled to the aforementioned island of Aeaea to live a solitary life.
She’s not as solitary as you’d think. She does get the occasional visitor, such as Hermes, who comes to hang out for a while (and by hang out, I obviously mean deserted island booty calls. This is Greek mythology after all, lol), and so on and so forth until… you know… the big visitor in h
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Hi there! I listen to audiobooks at work but have a very hard time sticking through audiobooks with narrators I dislike. I’m hoping for some audiobook suggestions from possibly people with similar taste in narrators?
I like mystery/thrillers/sci-fi/horror/fantasy/romance/YA so the spectrum is kinda broad. I know this might be a long shot since I only listed three examples of narrators, but any suggestions appreciated. (I also would accept any book, audio or otherwise, on cults! Never read one.)
