Review: Medusa's Desire
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2013
Oh wow!  I didn't expect this book to be quite so heart wrenching.  Black takes the story of Medusa and shows how she became the myth that she is.  It was an extremely different outlook on this story, throughout which she made medusa and her problems seem quite real as she showed how Medusa was wronged at every turn of events.The gods, goddesses, and the mythology surrounding the story itself stayed quite consistent.  In fact, all details throughout the story remain consistent.  Nothing takes a drastic change from one chapter to the next nor do you find yourself finding holes in the mythology or setup of the story.  The descriptions that Black uses (or doesn't use) could stand a bit of beefing up.  They aren't lacking to the extent that they detract from the story, however, they aren't very strong either.Although the character of Medusa was quite well developed, I found that the rest of the characters remained quite superficial.  I found myself pulling directly from Greek mythology to fill in the blanks about people, which still left them quite without personalities.After reading this book, you won't be able to look at Medusa or Perseus the same way.  It does, however, put a bit of a hole in the theory that true love conquers all.