Title: Read better by Her
Review: I'm a great admirer of Margaret Atwood's fiction and I will buy whatever book she writes in the future. However, this book is not her best. She is funny and witty in her writing as usual but for me this story was like a highly didactic story for high school students. I could read the effort behind the words to create a "through the female eye" version of the Odysseus story. I don't want to say that I did not enjoy reading the story, but I more than once had the feeling that I'm reading an assignment done by an eminent student: well-researched, all the necessary stylistic elements in the proper place, but the whole personality of the writer didn't immerse into the story. The writer couldn't fully identify with Penelope, so neither can the reader.
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