mamarabbit87 's review for:

Ilium by Dan Simmons
5.0

AMAZING! I have developed such a huge literary crush on Dan Simmons. To read the inside cover, the summary would sound like 3 different books thrown together in a salad spinner. WRONG! Its amazing! Disregard the summary and read it!

ESPECIALLY If like me you may have studied literature or have an interest in the classics. If you have read or taken classes on Illiad, Odyssey, Shakespeare, Proust, and several others you will find yourself having a chuckle. Several times throughout the book I feel like the author and I had some inside joke because of the references! Book is still completely understandable and a great read if you do not understand the references, just gives a literature major like me a warm fuzzy feeling