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King Of Ithaka (2010)

by Tracy Barrett(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0805089691 (ISBN13: 9780805089691)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

review 1: This book centers around Odysseus' son, Telemachos. The basic premise is that Odysseus has been away for 16 years, and Telemachos is prompted to go and find him when some of the men in Ithaka determine that it's time for Penelopeia, Odysseus' wife, to remarry - thereby giving Ithaka a new king. Telemachos, who hates to sail, leaves by boat on his journey to visit two other nearby kings (of Pylos and Sparta) to track down news of his father. I have to say that my favorite character of the story was Polydora. She had the most common sense and she was a decision-maker. Telemachos came across as indecisive and spoiled. While I think that was the intent, it made it hard to believe the turnaround in his character after his journey. He returns home and is ready to be king,... more challenges his newly returned father, and asserts himself as king. This book was a quick read, and fans of Greek mythology may enjoy it.
review 2: The title of my book review is king of ithaka by Tracy Barrett. The main character is Brax and Telemachos is the son of the king who is the ruler of Ithaka. The thing that I like about this book was the adventure to find the king and bring him home and the bad thing I didn’t like was there was very little Greek mythology in this story witch was a main disappointment of the book. The thing that got me was that the reasoning for searching for his dad was never really found or why he was doing it because all the book kept saying was he was going to these of sudden he found him I just didn’t like that about the story but it was ok in my opinion. The main strong point that I didn’t enjoy right of the bat was that the face was a young boy who I going guess was the centaur that need to be half man half horse. I didn’t understand why the sent the young son to go find there dad and in the mean time that getting e mother is looking remarried witch I isn’t understand if she loved him why they just go and get remarried to some instantly. My big point that was very weird was the hole he just got on this boat to other island why did he try to keep jumping island for looking for his father wouldn’t someone go. The thing that made me kind of unhappy was the end was predictable that everyone knew brax was going to come at the end the thing was he kind of left brax to die. Telemachos was tiring to save his dad but when he gets back ironically he dies. I believe that this book need more info to make it a better book because it was ended just the way we all thought the he finds his father but don’t get why she just kept going into detail about that. I advise people who like Greek mythology to read this book but it still is an ok book in my eyes. less

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