For this reason, this review will avoid going into too much plot-specific detail, although it will assume that the broad strokes are so commonly written about that they can no longer be spoiled. There are many little details that appear to be foreshadowing, yet when the time comes Saint neatly sidesteps the anticipated event. This is a story many people will be familiar with, thus Saint seems to take pleasure in playing with the reader’s expectations. The world of Ariadne is thus given a complete feel and enthralling narrative potential. Instead, Saint takes the character of Ariadne and follows her story, whilst incorporating other myths, from Daedalus and Icarus, to that of Acoetes and Dionysus. It would be easy to view Ariadne by Jennifer Saint as just another retelling of a classical myth.
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