Sweetbitter Song

Sweetbitter Song

Author: Rosie Hewlett Listening Length: 17h 47m
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Perfect for fans of The Song of Achilles and from the award-winning author of The Witch of Colchis comes a profoundly moving story of two women on the shores of Ithaca, in the shadows of a legendary war, who must face their own battle – one of sisterhood, survival, and a forbidden love that could destroy them both. On...

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Chapter 61

Night had fallen by the time we finished.

I stood beside my friends as Odysseus surveyed the spotless room, my muscles aching fiercely. I drew in a slow breath, the stench of blood and death permanently scalded into my nostrils.

I could feel the same suffocating exhaustion weighing down the others as we awaited Odysseus’s assessment of our work. We all longed to return to our quarters, to bathe and sleep and escape this nightmare. But there was still that look in Odysseus’s eyes, that agitated hunger.

I knew his vengeance was not satiated, not yet.