![]() ![]() Rereads really help you catch so much more foreshadowing and I really need to make the effort to reread more often, because this was just stunning. I first read it a few years ago, but my reread this month really just made everything so much more heartbreaking. Where do I even start with a book like this? Sometimes I think knowing the pain that you’ll feel makes a book even more devastating, as if the constandt dread at the events you know are coming just makes everything hurt so much more. Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus journeys with Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear. But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper – despite the displeasure of Achilles’ mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Goodreads blurb: Greece in the age of heroes. Title: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller ![]()
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