A review by zsabella
Galatea by Madeline Miller

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

Loved this, and loved Madeline Miller’s afterword too for this specifically:
As for Pygmalion, I accepted him exactly as Ovid made him. The term “incel” wasn’t in wide circulation when I wrote this, but Pygmalion is certainly a prototype. For millenia there have been men who react with horror and disgust to women’s independence, men who desire women yet hate them, and who take refuge in fantasies of purity and control. What would it be like to live with such a man as your husband? There are too many today who could answer that. But that is the mark of a good source myth; it is water so wide it can reach across centuries.