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Das Lied des Achill by Madeline Miller

602 reviews

karlapardo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Oooof this book. It broke my heart into a million pieces. I did not expect this book to make me cry this much. I also was surprised with the fact that the book is written in Patroclus POV only, which I thought was beautifully thought out because readers can see Achilles the hero in a different way that we are not used to seeing. We see Achilles through Patroclus’ point of view and because of that we are able to see his flaws, and his not-so-hero struggles that make him seem human. The fact that we get to read this from the point of view of the man who loved and cherished this great hero is breathtaking. 
Madeline Miller’s reading is…… breathtakingly beautiful. I don’t know how else to describe it if I am being honest. The poetry is just so well done that it’s able to paint such detailed and vivid scenes and emotions in every aspect. The good moments are shown so beautifully with the poesy of the writing and as readers we feel the joy and excitement of each scene. But the bad moments are also so heartbreaking, heart wrenching, devastatingly, painfully so well written that readers are able to feel absolutely everything. It has truly been the best written book I have read this year and I would read it again and again without a doubt. I would go through the pain of it every single time because of the incredible, beautiful, painful love story of Achilles and Patroclus. 

Memorable Quotes 

• “ACHILLES, it reads. And beside it, PATROCLUS. ‘Go’ she says. ‘He waits for you.’”
• “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
• “He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
• Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead “I wish he had let you all die.”
• Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Rape, Slavery, and Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

hammie_32's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Tried to cheat the system to give this more than 5 stars. I have unfortunately high standards for books to enjoy, and so often my experience is ruined by an ending falling flat. I set the book down about 3 months ago, 10% away from the end, because I couldn't bear to read the rest of it knowing what was coming. My reaction was diluted coming back to it, and i still cried through the last 3 chapters. A devastatingly beautiful queer fiction that I immediately want to restart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Rape, Slavery, Sexual violence, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Transphobia

majestictrilobite's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Homophobia, Medical content, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Child death, Bullying, Blood, Slavery, Death, Deportation, Animal cruelty, Gore, and Rape

baking_muffins's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Wow. Just wow.everything about this book is beautiful. The writing, the setting, the characters, their flaws, the consequences of those flaws. I want everyone to read this masterpiece

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Homophobia and Transphobia

inkwellimps's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

INCREDIBLY investing reinterpretation of Achilles and Patroclus (and Briseis!) from the Iliad from the point-of-view of Patroclus. The story begins in the pair's childhood and follows their origins through

their deaths and, in Patroclus' case, a bit further.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Homophobia, Death, Child abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Slavery

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Medical content

Minor: Gore, Grief, and Bullying

Child death refers to

a child bully character that is killed by another child character on accident. It is graphic in detail, but not emotionally overwhelming in my opinion

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zauet's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, War, Rape, Violence, Murder, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexism, Blood, Homophobia, Medical content, Child death, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Infidelity

17michaelasully's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Outing, Blood, Infidelity, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Rape

katofalltrades's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Beautiful and artistic, made me sob. Also, GAY! Only reason I didn’t score higher was because it was slow and sometimes the characters other than the main two were hard to follow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia

keelymightread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Rape, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Self harm, Abandonment, and Suicidal thoughts

el_wheel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Madeline Miller is nothing if not a woman who can make me sob 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexual content, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Homophobia, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Animal death, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Blood, Bullying, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, and Gore

Moderate: Rape, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, and Child death