Review: From Underground Book Reviews
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 12, 2013
For anyone who has ever been homesick, Return to the Aegean will evoke your most deep-set emotions. Not only because EJ Russell writes heartwrenchingly poetic prose, but because the main character's emotions are genuine and raw. So often in literature, strong female characters are contrived and unbelievable- either because they are portrayed as a strong women but have cliche weaknesses, or because they are so over-the-top strong that they simply aren't real. But Thalia is neither cliche nor exaggerated. A woman who struggles with the emotions of returning home after running away and living at sea, she will stay in readers hearts forever.Read the rest of this review at Underground Book Reviews (dot) com.