![]() ![]() ![]() Saint’s style is at once cluttered and formal, with the contraction-avoidance of a certain stripe of fantasy and a tendency for characters to call or ask or shrill or sputter their words. I struggled with Ariadne for several reasons, and one of them is simply that it’s very traditional. Saint knows her mythology backwards and forwards and barefoot and sauntering off into the trees for bloody rituals, but her tale rarely strays from the expected path. Packed with myth and tales of misbehaving gods, it is-for better and for worse-a detailed filling-out of the ways Ariadne and her fellow women suffer at the hands of the ancient, mythological patriarchy. But you don’t really need to know any of them to understand Jennifer Saint’s debut novel, Ariadne. There are varying stories, and more than one ending for the daughter of Minos and Pasiphae. We rarely hear about what happened to Ariadne after the labyrinth. ![]()
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