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Lavinia, daughter of a king, promised to one, destined for another, & the future of Rome.

Loved this so much, but I hate that little blurb on the front. This story is about so much more than Lavinia‘s marriage to Aeneus & the war between her people and the Trojans. It‘s about the power a woman could wield, about how much control we have over our own stories, about the role that fate plays in our lives, & the beginnings of an empire. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

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This is the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia who's just barely mentioned in the poem. I think she did a great job with this. Definitely not her normal genre.

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Lavinia, a Latin princess, has many suitors but she is not interested in any of them until Aeneas arrives from Troy.

Another woman from legend gets the chance to tell her own story, but she herself also reflects on whether she actually exists outside the story as told by Vergil. Enjoyable but if even the main character isn't sure whether she exists it's difficult to feel any emotional involvement in what's going on.

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A mix of genre, new, old. That I would and have reread.

A voiceless character from Vergil's The Aeneid, Lavinia, is given a whole novel to herself, and it's good. Greek and Roman mythology is hardly believable, but in this very human take, it felt so much more like history than a carefully crafted fable inspired by an ancient epic. I struggled with the first quarter of the book but it picked up fast after that.

Meh. This is a narrative of the life of Lavinia, Aeneas's last wife in Vergil's Aeneid. As a teen, the poet Vergil speaks to her across time as he is dying and tells her what is going to happen. The purpose of her life is to marry a hero, a widower twice her age, who will die three years later, so she can bear his child, whose descendents will found Rome. She gets no other life. How depressing. Just interesting enough to finish.

I was drawn in from the first line with the self-conscious narrative of Lavinia as she contemplates her reality and attributes her very existence to her creator, the poet Virgil. Based on the last 6 books of Virgil's Aeneid, Ursula Le Guin not only gives a voice to Lavinia but allows her to take control of her own destiny. Beautifully done and a delightful read.