A review by lyza_reads
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

5.0

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.

The way that I am in shambles right now. My emotions are truly all over the place and I feel overcome with the fear that I will never read a greater book than this one. In all honesty, I left this book sitting on my TBR for so long because part of me knew that this was going to happen, but that didn't ease the pain that I am currently feeling well past midnight.

How do you even review a book like this? I just have so many emotions - I'm crying so many tears that I can't even formulate a proper review so I'm just going to include my favorite quotes.

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone

I mean come ON. Do you not see that? How can you read something like that and not feel a spear just twisting all of your guts inside you? *side-eye*

The way that this book makes me feel is not okay. I know the pain and sadness it brought me but some part of me wants to re-read it until its pages are worn and falling from the cover. Achilles and Patroclus, the truest original love story that there ever was. They just wanted to be happy.

He is half of my soul, as the poets say.

I think if someone were to say this to me, it would definitely be endgame. Like that is it. I'm calling it. I have been spoken for. I cannot wait for the day that I feel as though a person is half my soul. The love that bounds from that statement is not one to be reckoned with. My heart aches all over again just thinking of these two.

"I am made of memories."

instant. waterfall. of. tears.