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Hera

By: Jennifer Saint
Narrated by: Naomi Frederick
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About this listen

The beguiling story of the Queen of Mount Olympus, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ATALANTA, ELEKTRA and ARIADNE.

From Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ATALANTA (UK, Sunday Times, April 2023), ELEKTRA (UK, Sunday Times, May 2022) and ARIADNE (UK, Sunday Times, April 2021), comes the captivating story of Greek mythology's most famous wife.

When the immortal goddess Hera helps her brother Zeus to overthrow their tyrannical father, the ancient Titan Cronos, she dreams of ruling the world at his side.

But as they establish their reign on Mount Olympus, Hera begins to see another side to Zeus, a side just as ruthless and cruel as Cronos was.

She was clearly born to rule, but does that mean perpetuating a cycle of violence and cruelty that has existed since the dawn of time?

Will assuming her power mean that Hera loses herself or can she find a way to forge a better world?

©2024 Jennifer Saint (P)2024 Headline Publishing Group Ltd Ancient Fantasy Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Mythology Ancient Greece Greek Mythology

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Critic reviews

'A spirited retelling.' Times

'Beautiful and absorbing.' Fabulous

'A vivid reimagining of Greek mythology.' Harper's Bazaar
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The pronunciation of names really spoiled it. Struggled to make it to the end of the book.

Some strange pronunciation

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I'm not sure what I expected from a story about the goddess Hera -although I had already found Saint to be an excellent author- but sympathising and growing ro like Hera so much as a character was delightdully unexpected and unique. Not only was this a brilliant story, but also an important one; Saint deals with some incredibly difficult subject matters (this is Greek myth after all) but does so in an intelligent and sensitive way, and with purpose.
Overall I found Hera's perspective startlingly unexpected and original, the narrator was also fantastic.

unexpected and original

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The narrator can't pronounce a single name or place name to save her life, really takes me out of the overall story.

Terrible audio narration

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Jennifer Saint weaves together all the tendrils of Hera’s mythology into a cohesive and captivating retelling of the old legends, adding a new perspective to much-retold patriarchal tales. A real breath of fresh air. My only criticism would be that the final two chapters dragged on for slightly too long and could have been halved as they didn’t really add much to close the story.

Fantastic story

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This books was incredible! The story line everything. The only thing that was bothering was the missed pronounced names. Apart from that I loved everything about it!

Amazing!

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Good story the only thing is the narrator pronounced quite a few of the the names wrong which was a bit annoying and distracting.

Good story but the mispronouncing of most of the names was distracting.

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Annoying how the narrator keeps mispronouncing some of the gods names. Takes you out of the story somewhat. Still good though.

Great story but narrator mispronounces names

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The story was fine enough, and I enjoyed listening to it but wasn’t really what I was expecting.

The pronunciations of some of the names (Hair Bear for Hebe, AahRez for Ares for example) was just criminal and nearly made me stop listening. Who signed them off?

Ok story, frustrating pronunciations

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I was enjoying this but my god the narrator is incapable of pronouncing a single name correctly, it’s actually distracting

Awful narrator

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For fans of Greek Mythology Hera is a must read. Her perspectives of events that have already been bought to is in mythical stories take on a new dimension as the wronged queen of heaven. great story

Misunderstood Hera

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