A review by hollandvk
The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason

4.0

The Lost Books of the Odyssey is another contemporary book that uses well-crafted language, trickery and whimsy to explore the absurd world of Greek mythology. Through the structure and delivery, it questions the great epics and their origins. Are they the stories spun by a drunk bard or exaggerated tales from an aged Odysseus reveling in the days of his youth? There are many holes in the historic record and multiple and contradictory accounts of every myth that allow Mason to roam freely through diverse possibilities. The ideas and descriptions are excellent, but it needs a little improvement in sentence structure and meter to transform from a good book to an excellent one.