Stone Blind (2022) by Natalie Haynes: tells the story of Medusa, the human Gorgon whom Perseus slays to save his mother. Multiple voices and cynical feminism. Medusa and her two immortal Gorgon sisters live apart from all human and divine beings because they have been exiled for their ugliness. The Olympian gods are not favorably depicted — very post-modern critique of them. Especially Athene who is a female vulcan whose intellect makes her incapable (unwilling) to understand or tolerate lesser intelligent beings.

Hera (2024) by Jennifer Saint: tells the story of Hera — her birth, her early goddesshood raised in hiding to protect her from being eaten by her own father, her partnership with Zeus until his meglomania overcame him, her unwilling marriage to Zeus, her desire to punish him for his many betrayals (not just to other women but of the idea of their equality) to her dissolution into modernity as humans stopped worshipping the Greek gods

It would be worthwhile to seek out other books by these two authors.

I want to read books where I know the basic plot. I don’t need my novel reading to hold unpleasant surprises when life right now has more than enough with the current incompetent, chaotic, and destructive administration.