Will this head up to a happy ending for her?Īriadne is left on an island to die and later saved by Dionysus, another Olympian god. She ends up disobeying the gods, betraying her family, and risking everything she loved to help Theseus kill the Minotaur, who’s her brother and a monster who demands blood sacrifice. To accomplish his mission, he need help from Ariadne and her sister Phaedra, and the girls realize the consequences when it’s too late.Īriadne sees his green eyes as an escape instead of a threat. The two sisters fall under his spell, and Ariadne falls in love with him.Īs a sign of tribute to the Crete kingdom, the twelve souls of Athens are required yearly as a blood sacrifice to the Minotaur, and Theseus has come to bring this to an end. He’s on a mission of destroying the dreaded Minotaur, Ariadne’s brother and eater of human flesh. Theseus is a young and charming prince of Athens who comes to Ariadne’s father’s kingdom. The two sisters grew up listening to the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the Labyrinth below the palace. The story begins on Crete island and then follows the background details of the familiar tale of Minotaur in the labyrinth that acts as a catalyst of how the lives of the two sisters go on in the following years.Īriadne, the princess of Crete, grew up greeting the dawn from the beautiful dancing floor and listening to the stories about gods and heroes. The main focus in the novel is an eponymous character, Ariadne, and her younger sister Phaedra who are both the daughters of King Minos. Jennifer lives in Yorkshire, England, with her husband and two children.Īriadne is a mythological retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. For thirteen years, she was a high school teacher and later wrote her first novel, Ariadne.
She grew up reading Greek mythology and was always attracted to the untold stories hidden in myths.
Jennifer Siant is a historical fiction writer born in Leeds, The United Kingdom.
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