This was hard to rate or to review because I loved the Clytemnestra part, which started the book. When it began, I honestly thought I was looking at a five-star read here. It was touching and intense and emotional and it's always been a story I've been fascinated with.

Orestes and Electra, when they had their own parts, just felt less real. They didn't bring that same level of emotion, and I honestly got bored during a portion of Orestes' story.

Maybe I should have known when the synopsis discussed Clytemnestra as one of history's greatest villains that this wasn't going to quite be for me, but that beginning left me with so much hope.

Overall it wasn't bad, I just wanted to rate each part of it individually, almost, so I'm kind of averaging in my overall score. It felt like it ended on a weaker portion, and that's hard to forgive when it began with such promise.