The first 50 pages made me wanna quit reading this book, but once I got through them, the pleasure began and I couldn't put this down. The thing is, at first, you don't understand who is who exactly, everything is so vague but some googling helped clear things out. I read Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes, and I enjoyed it a lot, so I was looking forward to reading this and I wasn't disappointed. This is the story of Jocasta, a character whose details are overlooked when talking about her story with Oedipus. Most of the times, Oedipus is at the center of the tragedy, and Jocasta is portrayed as a mere part of it, even if she is as central as the male protagonist. So this, sheds a light on her, her life with Laius, how she met Oedipus at first and how the tragedy unfolded bit by bit. Parallel to this, there's the story of her four children who are in the care of their uncle Creon. Another part of the tragic story that is never talked about. The book shifts between the point of view of Ismene, Jocasta's youngest daughter and that of Jocasta herself. The only thing I didn't appreciate that much, is how she changed the cause of the tragedy that took place, I don't know if it's a brilliant thing to do, as the writer gave a completely different story of how things happened, or if I was disappointed, because what is Jocasta and Oedipus without the THING that happened. I don't know, I loved the story, but the shift was a bit destabilizing.