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A review by immabehazzie
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.”
I was not expecting what I read. I was expecting a kind of cheesy tragic romance but to read about young boys slowly falling in love and learning their horrible fates and having to tragically deal with it. ‘The Song of Achilles’ is an amazing book. It was like the love they had for each other leapt off of the page. I didn’t cry, although, it was horribly sad and got sadder. Even though sad doesn’t feel like the right word.
Something else I’d like to mention is how they mentioned the sexual assault that often takes place in Greek Mythology. I thought the book would shy away from it but it didn’t and I’m glad for it. It shows how different every character really is by how they act to it. Some men participate in the assault, some are indifferent, and how Patroclus is against it and even tries to stop it where he can. Without even mentioning that it is assault Achilles himself is assaulted himself and I wish they would have shed some light on that.
My point is, the book is amazing and everything about it is written beautifully. I can’t believe how long I have waited to read it.
I was not expecting what I read. I was expecting a kind of cheesy tragic romance but to read about young boys slowly falling in love and learning their horrible fates and having to tragically deal with it. ‘The Song of Achilles’ is an amazing book. It was like the love they had for each other leapt off of the page. I didn’t cry, although, it was horribly sad and got sadder. Even though sad doesn’t feel like the right word.
Something else I’d like to mention is how they mentioned the sexual assault that often takes place in Greek Mythology. I thought the book would shy away from it but it didn’t and I’m glad for it. It shows how different every character really is by how they act to it. Some men participate in the assault, some are indifferent, and how Patroclus is against it and even tries to stop it where he can. Without even mentioning that it is assault Achilles himself is assaulted himself and I wish they would have shed some light on that.
My point is, the book is amazing and everything about it is written beautifully. I can’t believe how long I have waited to read it.