Genre: Adult Fantasy
Year Release: June 7th, 2022
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Content warning: Vomiting, gore, bloodshed, death by drowning, dismemberment, death in childbirth, misgendering, deadnaming, slavery, pregnancy
The Iliad with a trans lens. Achilles is a trans woman living on Skyros with women just like her when Odysseus comes searching for him to partake in a war to retrieve Helen from the Hittites. Instead of fighting as a man, Athena intervenes and gives her the body of a woman, and she goes off to war.
Drenched in glory and war-time gore, there is also a surprising amount of love and beauty to be found in this modern retelling.
An interview with the author will be posted on June 7th, 2022 (release day!).
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