A review by ninarivagf
Le silence des vaincues by Pat Barker

2.0

Honestly i didn't except this book to be so much about achilles and patroclus and all the characters were so underdeveloped, having chapters from three different pov resulted in the friendship between patroclus and briseis being so underdeveloped and same for patrochilles. I didn't shed a single tear and usually the illiad makes me cry fountains. The switching persons + the anachronism made this such a frustrating and annoying read, briseis talks like she knows what an iphone is. I really liked how the beginning of the book was so brutally anti-war but i wished we stayed on a woman's perspective as promised because making this the story of achilles AND briseis didn't work at all and it could have done more with the trojans girls if we didn't waste time on the men.