u/NewspaperConfident62

I’m less than a quarter of the way through this book and I’m already frustrated to no end. The amount of anachronisms is frankly ridiculous, especially when the anachronisms in question are major plot points in the story. The Trojan War and the myth of Psyche took place, like, four generations apart. Atalanta, who becomes Psyche’s teacher, was literally not even born for another several decades. Every time I pick up a Greek mythology reimagining, I look at the author’s description in the book jacket to check if they have any background in classics, so I was shocked that Luna McNamara, an acclaimed author who studied Ancient Greek language and philosophy and has a degree from Harvard related to world religions, reads like an AO3 crossover fanfic. I’ve seen similar reviews criticizing McNamara’s creative liberties with the source material. I hope it gets better as I read it, but right now, I’m rather disappointed.

I’ve heard that contraltos are like insanely rare, like 1% or less of the female population. However, I see many people online claiming to be contraltos if they can comfortably get down to maybe D3s, and I personally know multiple girls who can reach that or lower, with some able to get down to a Bb2. Many of them consider themselves to be mezzos with an exceptional lower extension, so what exactly is the difference? How rare really are contraltos?