A review by writerlibrarian
The Death Of Achilles by Boris Akunin

3.0

More a 3 1/2 stars in the end. This is a two points of view narration but you only find out 2/3 into the book. The first part is Fandorin doing his thing and it ends on a cliff hanger that will be resolve only in the last 10 pages. The second part is the same story but from the bad guy point of view. Which was interesting but for the reader to identify with the bad guy you need to 'get him'. Unfortunately for me I did not. The choice Akunin made to tell the story from the bad guy point of view is interesting but he tells, he doesn't show because it's a huge flash back that goes from point A to point B until the story is at the cliff hanger.

Not a bad story just too much telling not enough showing.