Lies We Sing to the Sea

Name: Lies We Sing to the Sea
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Sarah Underwood
ISBN: 9780063234512

Author: Sarah Underwood

Narrator: Saffron Coomber, Ioanna Kimbook, Sebastian Humphreys

Unabridged: 13 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 03/14/2023

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends, Lgbtq+, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

An instant New York Times bestseller—and a legendary YA debut!This dazzling sapphic fantasy inspired by Greek mythology will captivate fans of Circe and The Song of Achilles.Each spring, Ithaca condemns twelve maidens to the noose. This is the price vengeful Poseidon demands for the lives of Queen Penelope’s twelve maids, hanged and cast into the depths centuries ago.But when that fate comes for Leto, death is not what she thought it would be. Instead, she wakes on a mysterious island and meets a girl with green eyes and the power to command the sea. A girl named Melantho, who says one more death can stop a thousand.The prince of Ithaca must die—or the tides of fate will drown them all.Sarah Underwood weaves an epic tapestry of lies, love, and tragedy, perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Alexandra Bracken, and Renée Ahdieh.

About Sarah Underwood

Sarah Underwood grew up by the sea in Devon. A data scientist by training, she is a graduate of Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge and is now studying for her PhD at the University of Oxford. Sarah has been writing as long as she can remember and has always been drawn to stories of myth and magic. Her debut novel, Lies We Sing to the Sea, was an instant New York Times, indie, and international bestseller.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ellie

This book. This book!! I am emotionally WRECKED - Lies enchanted me through and through, and beyond being without a doubt one of my favourite reads of the year, I think it'll stick with me for a long time. The writing style and narrative voice alone has me enthralled, and I thought it an accomplished......more

Goodreads review by literaryelise

Lies We Sing To The Sea is severely under researched, underdeveloped, and ultimately (forgive the triad) underwhelming. I had many issues with the book but I’ll start with what I enjoyed: -The ending did genuinely take me by surprise and in a good way. -The prose itself was not bad, it was even beau......more

Goodreads review by Laura

So this book isn't without controversy; the gist of the outrage was in response to the fact that the young, white, queer, autistic writer admitted in an interview last summer (22) that she had not read the full source material in writing a book inspired by a portion of the Odyssey. As a professor of......more

Goodreads review by alaska

my e-reader decided to die when i was 97% into this book and i just think that's ironic since i too wanted to d—......more

Goodreads review by theresa

stunning. well and truly stunning. this is not a retelling of the odyssey—far from it. please, don't be put off by the comments here from people who haven't read the book and clearly know nothing of what it's about. this is a gorgeous, heart wrenching story that imagines the fate of penelope's twelve......more