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ingerlisa 's review for:
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
2.5 stars
I don't know what to say.... sorry?
This is what all the hype is about? Am I missing something... maybe just the warmth in my heart. Or you know any feelings at all because this book sadly just didn't do it for me.
I REALLY wanted to love this. I wanted to be as in love with this as everyone else is. But I was pretty underwhelmed upon reading this book.
I have read Circe and was disappointed with that one also so perhaps I am just not the biggest fan of Madeline Miller's writing because something was lacking.
The first 150 pages honestly I found them fairly enjoyable. I wasn't bored, I found their romance sweet and I found them fairly interesting characters. But I don't think Achilles or Patroclus really grew from the boys we first saw them as. Somehow Madeline Miller was able to write a 350 page book that felt like a 600+ page book that just gave me nothing.
I did not root for these characters. Honestly I just wanted to see them crumble just to see if I would feel something.
"I could not even see the ugliness of the deaths anymore, the brains, the shattered bones that later I would wash from my skin and hair. All I saw was his beauty, his singing limbs, the quick flickering of his feet."
- I mean was this meant to be romantic because this was as romantic as Hannibal Lecture
Anyway... essentially just did not live up to the hype.
I don't know what to say.... sorry?
This is what all the hype is about? Am I missing something... maybe just the warmth in my heart. Or you know any feelings at all because this book sadly just didn't do it for me.
I REALLY wanted to love this. I wanted to be as in love with this as everyone else is. But I was pretty underwhelmed upon reading this book.
I have read Circe and was disappointed with that one also so perhaps I am just not the biggest fan of Madeline Miller's writing because something was lacking.
The first 150 pages honestly I found them fairly enjoyable. I wasn't bored, I found their romance sweet and I found them fairly interesting characters. But I don't think Achilles or Patroclus really grew from the boys we first saw them as. Somehow Madeline Miller was able to write a 350 page book that felt like a 600+ page book that just gave me nothing.
I did not root for these characters. Honestly I just wanted to see them crumble just to see if I would feel something.
"I could not even see the ugliness of the deaths anymore, the brains, the shattered bones that later I would wash from my skin and hair. All I saw was his beauty, his singing limbs, the quick flickering of his feet."
- I mean was this meant to be romantic because this was as romantic as Hannibal Lecture
Anyway... essentially just did not live up to the hype.