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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Raise your arm if u wanted to punch a character so bad. 🙋🏻♀️ Raise your arm if you've cursed at a character with every language possible u know. 🙋🏻♀️ Raise your arm if it also made u love them at the same time. 🙋🏻♀️
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Rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
📙 : The Song of Achilles by @madeline.e.miller
⚠️ Spoiler alert!!
This is my first time reading Greek mythology so my knowledge is pretty limited to only Heracles story. This book is honest and raw. The characters are perfectly flawed. At the beginning of the chapters, i love how differently they are treated, both a prince but one is a star and one is a castaway. They learn to grow up and experience and learn new things together but they also fell in love.
Throughout reading this i researched more on Achilles' story and he is known for his arrogance which Madeline also depicts in the book. On the first few chapters Achilles' arrogance is cutely tolerated. The ending is where this personality affected a lot of damaging consequences. His prideful trait, his selfishness which is so great that it happened to affect Patroclus entirely.
And Patroclus' story i love his character. Despite all of Achilles' arrogance, he still cherishes him to the point of sacrificing his own safety. He still cares of what people might think of Achilles in the next future. He wanted everyone to know who Achilles was to him, how tender he was, his sweet personality that ppl didnt know. And he was thinking of all of those things without prioritizing him first. To me, he is brave, he is loved tho not known by fame. I also love his ending with Achilles' mother. There are scenes where i was mad at him esp what happened btwn him and Deidamia. Like gosh im so confused but thats abt it. 😂
Let's not even talk about Pyrrhus bc he was so annoying. This is when i started cursing in every language possible. Overall amazing book love madeline miller! I'll put Circe on my TBR pile.
😭😭😭
Rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
📙 : The Song of Achilles by @madeline.e.miller
⚠️ Spoiler alert!!
This is my first time reading Greek mythology so my knowledge is pretty limited to only Heracles story. This book is honest and raw. The characters are perfectly flawed. At the beginning of the chapters, i love how differently they are treated, both a prince but one is a star and one is a castaway. They learn to grow up and experience and learn new things together but they also fell in love.
Throughout reading this i researched more on Achilles' story and he is known for his arrogance which Madeline also depicts in the book. On the first few chapters Achilles' arrogance is cutely tolerated. The ending is where this personality affected a lot of damaging consequences. His prideful trait, his selfishness which is so great that it happened to affect Patroclus entirely.
And Patroclus' story i love his character. Despite all of Achilles' arrogance, he still cherishes him to the point of sacrificing his own safety. He still cares of what people might think of Achilles in the next future. He wanted everyone to know who Achilles was to him, how tender he was, his sweet personality that ppl didnt know. And he was thinking of all of those things without prioritizing him first. To me, he is brave, he is loved tho not known by fame. I also love his ending with Achilles' mother. There are scenes where i was mad at him esp what happened btwn him and Deidamia. Like gosh im so confused but thats abt it. 😂
Let's not even talk about Pyrrhus bc he was so annoying. This is when i started cursing in every language possible. Overall amazing book love madeline miller! I'll put Circe on my TBR pile.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment, War