The Song Of Achilles

After growing up as an avid reader and majoring in literature at college, I recently lost touch with reading and picked up this book based on the glowing recs I saw online.I've now read this book thrice back to back because it's just so well written and so beautiful. Very easily one of my favorite books now and I cannot wait to read more from this author.Highly recommend!

The physical book itself is good but the paper feels really thin (I hope that's more environmentally friendly) but I didn't enjoy the book as much as other people did. Hyped up in my opinion.

I bought it as a gift for my friend and the quality is great

The story was so good, and the end was OMG. The book condition was… it’s not bad but the cover felt weird. Not like the book you get from a library

It was clean and not scratched or anything

it was just like the picture, was safely delivered

Delivered one day earlier, good quality

This book was written so beautifully, I enjoyed reading it.

I didn't choose to read this book. It was chosen for me as a book-club read. I don't like books about mythology (school in the 1960s put me off for life.) Or ancient history, or wars in any period of history, apart from maybe the two world wars. So, I bought this book with trepidation, not knowing what to expect. I didn't quite believe all the good reviews, and thought I would hate it.I actually loved it. This is a beautifully-written, very descriptive book. It was easy to read, and a real page turner. I felt that I learned a lot about ancient Greece and the Trojan war. I can't fully remember the story of Achilles from school (it has been erased from my memory, along with Jason and the Argonauts, and the Minotaur) but I loved this re-telling and couldn't put the book down. The simple, striking cover is beautiful too and I would thoroughly recommend this book. A wonderful read.

A very short review, I'm afraid. Not worthy of this book.Does this count as historical, or mythological, or pure fantasy? Don't care - brilliant, brilliant book. It was positively painful to read it if I'm honest but I couldn't put it down. One of those books that I felt a true and consuming sense of loss for a few days after reading it. Recommended to EVERYONE.

This is one of my favourite books of all time. I've actually got quite a few copies and just purchased the new classic cover release because it's beautiful. This story is a re-telling and very readable version of a classic myth from the Illiad. Miller's prose breathes life and very relatable romance into this myth in a way that will grip you. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who loves greek myths, to people studying classics and to people who ever wondered how long men have been loving men. Its a real work of art and one that's so easy to read again and again. It's also a great time to re-read miller because she's about to release her second book (FINALLY). Also Miller knows what she's talking about and her work is heavily researched and intelligent so for all those hoping it's not a sloppy mistelling of a Greek myth- it's absolutely not. I wish i could read it for the first time again.

O único ponto fraco desse livro é que ele é muito fraco pra ser tão caro, as páginas são de jornal, mas a capa é muito bonita e meio resistente. Quanto a história, meu único arrependimento foi ter lido tão rápido. Se vcs querem um livro pra chorar e sofrer, esse é o livro. O inglês é um pouco difícil, mas nada impossível de ser lido.

Product arrived on time and in perfect condition.Now, let's talk about the book.The thing is, there is nothing that I can, in good conscience, criticize. At times sweet but always so lovely. This is a wonderful piece of work. It's art. I knew how this was going to end, I believe we all did, but still at the end, I cried. That is an achievement on the author's part, to take something old and familiar and execute it in such a way that the reader still feels the freshness, the shock of it all. I am in awe. This is kind of a half-arsed review but that is only because I just finished this piece of art and my thoughts are a jumbled mess. All I can say is this: I hated Achilles and I hated his hubris and I hated Agamemnon and Patroclus deserved better.