The Voyage Home by Pat Barker

Series: Women of Troy (#3)

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Published: April 12, 2025 by Penguin

Historical fiction/library

War is horrible, and all women of Troy got to experience the worst. Here we have Ritsa, once a healer now a slave and serving Cassandra. Who is also a slave, but given to Agamemnon. And she knows she will die, and I know she will die. So I just keep waiting for that eventual doom.

But this is Ritsa´s book. We see how crazy Cassandra is, made so by Apollo that ahole. Not to mention after suffering horrific things after the fall of Troy.

There is a a bit on a ship and then the arrive, and the countdown begins. Because they will die....well I did not know about Ritsa so I had hope. She just pushed through. Like everyone else she just thought Cassandra was crazy and not giving prophecies.

A good book. Does make me hate men though.

Continuing the story of the captured Trojan women as they set sail for Mycenae with the victorious Greeks, this new novel centres on the fate of Cassandra -- daughter of King Priam, priestess of Apollo, and a prophet condemned never to be heeded. (When she refuses to have sex with Apollo, after he has kissed her, granting her the gift of true prophecy, he spits in her mouth to make sure she will never be believed.)

Psychologically complex and dangerously driven, Cassandra's arrival in Mycenae will set in motion a bloody train of events, drawing in King Agamemnon, his wife Clytemnestra and daughter Electra. Agamemnon's triumphant return from Troy is far from the celebration he imagined, and the fate of the Trojan women as uncertain as they had feared.