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The Song of Achilles
by

Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)

Karina's review

Jan 31, 2024

it was amazing

bookshelves: 5-star-reads, contemporary-historical, top-shelf-shit, fantasy

★ 5 stars

Madeline took out my heart and then gave it right back to me. I sobbed and wiped my tears and then sobbed again. The writing was absolutely beautiful, the prose absolutely incredible, I LOVED LOVED the way it was crafted. It was lyrical but simple and packed a powerful image.

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
This is a Greek Mythology retelling of the story of Achilles, the legendary Greek hero and his friend/lover Petroclus. It's an epic tale of love and war and pain. Achilles and Patroclus's relationship felt like a privilege to experience - the joy and heartbreak that comes with it.

“What has Hector done to me?”
WHAT HAS HECTOR DONE TO ME?!?! Are you kidding me? I could burst into tears again just by reading that. One my new all-time favorite reads.

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Quotes Karina Liked

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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