This is the sequel to The King Must Die a book I’ve read twice now, and generally think is a brilliant retelling of the Theseus myth. This sequel follows Theseus in his ascension to the throne of Athens, two marriages, many adventures, and son, and ultimately to his death. And for reasons that hard to pinpoint, I found it boring and disappointing. The stakes of the first novel feel very high throughout the whole of it starting with the impending death of sentence of being the […]