A review by strikingthirteen
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon

3.0

I would give this three and a half if possible. The writing is lovely and I love the way that these great historical figures are made to be like real people. Granted I don't quite have the biographies of Aristotle and Alexander the Great quite up to snuff in my head but I really liked the way that Lyon wrote them. It was a great book to get lost in for a day and just leaf through. I think I was hoping for a little bit more teacher/student stuff considering the main plot of the book but I did also quite enjoy Aristotle's flashbacks to childhood, his homelife, his relationship with Philip, all that other extra stuff which just fleshed it all out.

All in all, very enjoyable :)