Chang'e took an elixir of immortality, and as punishment was banished to live on the moon. Sue Lynn Tan's Daughter of the Moon Goddess takes the legend of the Chinese moon goddess Chang'e as its starting point. It's an intense look at an intense love, and explores the all-consuming and devastating effects of having a lover as a muse.ĭaughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan (2022)

Sarvat Hasin's The Giant Dark is inspired by the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, and follows rock star Aida and her muse Ehsan, who reconnect after a decade apart. But when he disobeyed instructions to not look back to check if Eurydice was following him, he lost her forever.

Handed power by Merlin and pursuing a doomed romance with the beautiful Guinevere, Arthur's destiny is to unite the country and hold back the Saxon enemy at the gate.Īccording to Greek mythology, Orpheus and Eurydice had a love so great that when Eurydice died, Orpheus travelled to the underworld to get her back. The country's lesser kings are seeking to claim the crown for themselves, but no one has counted on the fearsome warlord Arthur. In the Dark Ages, Uther, the High King of Britain has died and left his son, the infant Mordred, as his heir. The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell (1995)īernard Cornwell's retelling of Arthurian legend shows Arthur, Merlin, and Guinevere as you've never seen them before. As Penelope wanders the underworld she's spinning her own tale and it's one that contains lust, greed, and murder. She spends years silently weaving and unpicking a tapestry while waiting for her husband to return from the Trojan war. In this novella, Margaret Atwood turns her attention to Penelope, wife of Odysseus. Arifa Akbar in the Evening Standard said 'Home Fire is as much its own story as a re-telling'. No surprises for guessing that the tale ends in tragedy, but it still comes as a surprise in Shamsie's deft hands. Shamsie's reimagining of the play follows the Pasha family: oldest sister Isma, and her younger twin siblings Anneka and Parvaiz, whose lives are all changed when Eamonn Lone, the son of British Home Secretary Karamat Lone, enters their lives. That tale chronicles Antigone's attempts to bury her brother Polynices against the orders of the Theban king Creon. Kamila Shamsie's Women's Prize for Fiction winner Home Fire is a modern retelling of Sophocles' play Antigone. From the birth of Athena to Pandora opening the jar or evil torments, Mythos is told with great humour and a wink or two. Magic and mayhem are centre to these tales, which focus on the Greek gods and goddesses and their (mostly) bad behaviour. Secrets from the past are revealed and Lu Zhao Yao realizes who her enemies are and who has stayed by her side all along.In Mythos, Stephen Fry takes famous and lesser-known tales from Greek myths and tells them in his own inimitable fashion. Contrary to expectations, Lu Zhao Yao gets kidnapped by Jiang Wu instead. Lu Zhao Yao entices him to steal another sword for her sake while she colludes with Jiang Wu (Dai Chao) with a scheme of her own. However, Mo Qing has already taken back his identity as Li Chen Lan, the son of the Demon King, and currently sits in the center of power. She also returns to Wan Lu Man, hoping to reclaim her position as the leader.

Five years later, Lu Zhao Yao manages to establish a connection with Qin Zhi Yan (Xiao Yan) of the Immortal Sect. She mistakenly assumes Mo Qing (Xu Kai) to be the culprit who betrayed her. She falls into a dangerous situation while she was attempting to claim the sword that the Old Demon King left behind. Lu Zhao Yao (Bai Lu) is the fearless leader of Wan Lu Men. After her 'death', she is determined to regain her place ass King.

A one of a kind xianxia story with the right amount of action, humor, cuteness and drama that is told from the POV of the master of a Demon Sect.

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