rkessel 's review for:

The Charioteer by Mary Renault
5.0

i’m in emotional turmoil, my heart is hurting. this is very different from the kinds of books that i normally read, but i’m trying to step a little out of my comfort zone, as a treat. i loved it. at first the writing was very much of it’s time, and i’d have to read a sentence or paragraph a few times to fully understand what it’s saying, but the further i got into the easier it was and the more i was able to appreciate the subtext and metaphors. i definitely see myself revisiting this in the future.