Circe Audiobook (Free)

‘A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess’s story,’ this #1 NY Occasions bestseller is ‘both epic and seductive in its scope, recasting the most infamous feminine figure from your Odyssey being a hero in her personal best’ (Alexandra Alter, The New York Situations).

Inside your home of Helios, god of sunlight and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is definitely a strange child–not powerful, like her father, nor viciously appealing like her mother. Embracing the world of mortals for companionship, about Circe she discovers that she does have power–the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.

Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most popular figures in every of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.

But there is certainly danger, as well, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both guys and gods, eventually acquiring herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, forever, whether she belongs using the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to like.

With unforgettably brilliant characters, mesmerizing language and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, and a celebration of indomitable female strength within a man’s world.

#1 NY TIMES BESTSELLER–NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR BY NPR, The Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Regular, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Technology Monitor and Refinery 29, Buzzfeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Web publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Personal Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Publication Riot, Seattle Instances, and Business Insider