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title: "The Song of Achilles"
author: Madline Miller
stars: 2.5
readDate: 2025/03/22
url: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/9202845d-26cd-4a85-b15f-408116117028
thumbnailUrl: https://cdn.thestorygraph.com/m8cw3kb3qx4h2jl8kg0u4m3txhie
tags: fiction, fantasy, romance
---
This one really tailed off half-way through. I found the characters very one-dimensional (Patrcolus pines after Achilles, Achilles has muscles and can swing a sword fast), but the story took me at least up until the half-way mark. Weirdly I wasn't interested too much when the actual Iliad story line started to get going - maybe because I've heard it a million times before - and their essentially non-existent romance (more accurately an inch-deep obsession, I'd argue) didn't exactly inspire me to carry on reading.
