Elektra

I really loved Jennifer Saint's book Ariadne, so I was very excited when I saw this book on the shelf at the library.

The book is told from the point of view of Clytemnestra, Elektra and Cassandra, in turn.

Opening Lines:

The House of Atreus carried a curse. A particularly gruesome one, even by the standards of divine torment. The history of the family was full of brutal murder, adultery, monstrous ambition, and rather more cannibalism than one would expect. 

About the Trojan War:

All of us were imprisoned within Troy's walls, all of us except the men, who hauled on their armor at daybreak and coiled out onto the beach like a swarm of ants. At nightfall they returned, bruised and bloody and broken. The dead lay scattered across the plains, skewered, glassy-eyed, staring while the blood congealed in their wounds and the flies buzzed in thick clouds about them. At intervals there were truces, and Greeks and Trojans alike would gather the corpses. The smoke from the pyres choked the sky, swelling from the sprawling Greek camps at the shore and belching from our besieged city. Only the dead could leave Troy now.