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A review by iphigenie72
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
4.0
A novel about the relationship between Aristotle and Alexander the Great. It’s interesting to see how the teacher tries to influence the young prince though some things seemed to be already set in Alexander’s character when they first meet and the pupil is already 12. Nor knowing that much about Aristotle or Alexander it made even the events that are historical surprises, but this is very much fictional. It feels like not much happens in the book, but it was not too much philosophical which was my fear when I started… Philosophy was not my favourite subject in College, it lost me too easily.
I would not have chosen this book on my own, this era of history doesn’t attract me, it was a book I received from Lison (it’s a bookbox service in Quebec) and I was a little disappointed to receive a book in french translated from the English because I read mostly in English and I chose the service to have books originally written in French, but since I would have never read this otherwise it was a good thing in the end (though I did write the company to let them know my expectations for the future).
I would not have chosen this book on my own, this era of history doesn’t attract me, it was a book I received from Lison (it’s a bookbox service in Quebec) and I was a little disappointed to receive a book in french translated from the English because I read mostly in English and I chose the service to have books originally written in French, but since I would have never read this otherwise it was a good thing in the end (though I did write the company to let them know my expectations for the future).