So, somehow mythology things seem to me to be a different sort of item than fantasy. I have no solid basis for this, I realize. It has something to do with the tone. Some fantasy works have a mythological feel to them: A Wizard of Earthsea is close, for example.
I find myself wondering whether Miller will pull out some kind of a different, more interesting ending. So far, she's hewing pretty close to the actual myths, although she's made more ordinary reasons for some of the things that happen.
I can't really call the following a spoiler, because you can find it on any good mythology site or in any good mythology encyclopedia. But it does talk about aspects of the story that not everyone knows (I didn't know the end of the story myself, until I checked online).
I've noticed that in some books, most of the first part is a set-up for the smaller tale that the author actually wanted to tell. I'm sympathetic to this, because I've had it happen with fanfiction: I'll envision some scene first, and then I have to make a story to contain it. In this case, I thought the real story was Circe's time with Odysseus, but now I'm wondering if this melancholy part I'm in now, near the end, was the real story: what happens after Telegonus goes to meet his father Odysseus and inadvertently kills him.
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So, somehow mythology things seem to me to be a different sort of item than fantasy. I have no solid basis for this, I realize. It has something to do with the tone. Some fantasy works have a mythological feel to them: A Wizard of Earthsea is close, for example.
I find myself wondering whether Miller will pull out some kind of a different, more interesting ending. So far, she's hewing pretty close to the actual myths, although she's made more ordinary reasons for some of the things that happen.
I can't really call the following a spoiler, because you can find it on any good mythology site or in any good mythology encyclopedia. But it does talk about aspects of the story that not everyone knows (I didn't know the end of the story myself, until I checked online).
I've noticed that in some books, most of the first part is a set-up for the smaller tale that the author actually wanted to tell. I'm sympathetic to this, because I've had it happen with fanfiction: I'll envision some scene first, and then I have to make a story to contain it. In this case, I thought the real story was Circe's time with Odysseus, but now I'm wondering if this melancholy part I'm in now, near the end, was the real story: what happens after Telegonus goes to meet his father Odysseus and inadvertently kills him.