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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9775314" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Picked up Nikita Gill's new &quot;Hekate&quot; and am glad I did.&nbsp; My myth intake in recent years has probably just been Gaiman's &quot;Norse Mythology&quot; and I liked this a lot more.&nbsp; It was also about a bunch of the greek myths I wasn't as up on.&nbsp; I kept forgetting it was in free verse and not prose - and I wonder if it is more obvious in the hard copy than the really blown up version on my phone so that I didn't need my glasses.&nbsp; There were a few parts early where knowing it was a modern writers version worked particularly well with some world events.&nbsp; There were some parts later where it was a bit too much of a modern feel.Got the second Pinkerton mystery &quot;Two Against Scotland Yard&quot; by Zenith Brown Jones (writing as David Frome) from 1931. It zipped right along and the first 3/4 or so was very solid.&nbsp; I'm not sure if I was just tired at the end, but it seemed to lag a bit with my getting some characters jumbled and it having a bit too much tell not show denouement. (I want to say earlier in the book it did well with reminders of who was who by sometimes referring to them by occupation or whatnot instead of just the name, and it stopped doing that). Picked up the third one though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 9775314, member: 6701124"] Picked up Nikita Gill's new "Hekate" and am glad I did. My myth intake in recent years has probably just been Gaiman's "Norse Mythology" and I liked this a lot more. It was also about a bunch of the greek myths I wasn't as up on. I kept forgetting it was in free verse and not prose - and I wonder if it is more obvious in the hard copy than the really blown up version on my phone so that I didn't need my glasses. There were a few parts early where knowing it was a modern writers version worked particularly well with some world events. There were some parts later where it was a bit too much of a modern feel. Got the second Pinkerton mystery "Two Against Scotland Yard" by Zenith Brown Jones (writing as David Frome) from 1931. It zipped right along and the first 3/4 or so was very solid. I'm not sure if I was just tired at the end, but it seemed to lag a bit with my getting some characters jumbled and it having a bit too much tell not show denouement. (I want to say earlier in the book it did well with reminders of who was who by sometimes referring to them by occupation or whatnot instead of just the name, and it stopped doing that). Picked up the third one though. [/QUOTE]

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