Herc
A Novel

This is the Herc I know.......more

Description: Hercules' life, told through the eyes of a bunch of different folks who knew him. Liked: I liked the premise: it's clever to tie up a whole lot of (often contradictory) stories and spotlight the contradictions by showing that different people had different views on him. Some of the stories......more

Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson Greek Mythology | Retelling •This novel was a queer retelling of the classic, Hercules. You hear the voices of Herc’s mother, siblings, lovers, and wives. • I went into this knowing nothing about Hercules or Greek Mythology. I believe this novel would appeal to you more if y......more

This book might be my favourite Greek mythology retelling yet. This book focuses on the women, the lovers, the family and those few friends of Heracles, the hero of the Ancient Greek world. Heracles has always been a polarising character for me, as I have always loved the twelve labours stories, but......more

I admire how Rogerson's varied character voices are cleverly woven together. This book features in my Spring TBR video on BookTube.🌷 "It's impossible to explain to anyone who hasn't loved him what it's like to be there in the eye of the storm." Herc is Rogerson's debut novel, and it scratched......more