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title: The Song of Achilles
author: Madline Miller
stars: 2.5
readDate: 2025-03-22T00:00:00.000Z
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.