02502cam a2200325 i 4500 559766586 TxGeo 20220527120000.0 211008s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021049109 9780063161184 hbk. 0063161184 hbk. (OCoLC)1267584477 TxGeo rda Deane, Maya, author. Wrath goddess sing : a novel / Maya Deane. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022. 452 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The gods wanted blood. She fought for love. Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the "prince" Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother, Athena, intervenes, transforming her body into the woman's body she always longed for, and promises her everything: glory, power, fame, victory in war, and, most importantly, a child born of her own body. Reunited with her beloved cousin, Patroklos, and his brilliant wife, the sorceress Meryapi, Achilles sets out to war with a vengeance. But the gods-a dysfunctional family of abusive immortals that have glutted on human sacrifices for centuries-have woven ancient schemes more blood-soaked and nightmarish than Achilles can imagine. At the center of it all is the cruel, immortal Helen, who sees Achilles as a worthy enemy after millennia of ennui and emptiness. In love with her newfound nemesis, Helen sets out to destroy everything and everyone Achilles cherishes, seeking a battle to the death. An innovative spin on a familiar tale, this is the Trojan War unlike anything ever told, and an Achilles whose vulnerability is revealed by the people she chooses to fight...and chooses to trust"-- Provided by publisher. 20220609. Achilles Mythological character Fiction. Trojan War Fiction. Mythological fiction. Fantasy fiction. QS5