*I received an eARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*

Sapphic retelling of Psyche and Eros featuring a nonbinary Eros and lots of sapphic yearning. Retellings are a subgenre of speculative fiction that I've grown weary of in recent times, especially Greek myth retellings but I've heard nothing but great things about De Robertis' other works (Cantoras has been languishing on my TBR for ages) so I was excited to give this a try.

I think the biggest reason I see readers bouncing off of this is the prose. It is very flowery and lush which I think I would have struggled with if I read it physically but I had grabbed the audiobook from my library so I found it made it easy to sink in to the setting of the story. I did sometimes struggle with the differentiation in point of view, as we have Psyche written in first person and Eros written in third person. I ultimately understood why that choice was made narratively, but I don't know if it fully paid off in my opinion. That being said, thematically I loved everything this was doing with gender and the idea of power and building space for yourself within the constraints that society has placed on you.

Overall, while not a new favorite I did really enjoy my time in this book and recommend it!