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A review by luluwoohoo
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
I'd been craving a re-read of this exquisite book for a while and because I have the time to cry myself to sleep I decided now was good 😂
Madeline Miller has my whole heart with this book. I can't adequately describe the way her prose affects me, so poetic and vast within such simple constructions. Her dialogue is sparse but painstakingly crafted, carrying weight beyond their meagre words.
The story as it's own in pop culture fails to honour the true relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, but this novel sheds light into every facet of their life, both beautiful and ugly. The ugliness of Achilles, in particular, is so well handled from the tender perspective of his love that it's difficult to ever begrudge him his own downfall.
If I had to identify a book closest to perfection in my eyes, this would be it.
☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
I'd been craving a re-read of this exquisite book for a while and because I have the time to cry myself to sleep I decided now was good 😂
Madeline Miller has my whole heart with this book. I can't adequately describe the way her prose affects me, so poetic and vast within such simple constructions. Her dialogue is sparse but painstakingly crafted, carrying weight beyond their meagre words.
The story as it's own in pop culture fails to honour the true relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, but this novel sheds light into every facet of their life, both beautiful and ugly. The ugliness of Achilles, in particular, is so well handled from the tender perspective of his love that it's difficult to ever begrudge him his own downfall.
If I had to identify a book closest to perfection in my eyes, this would be it.
"Perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth, when another is gone."
"I could recognise 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."