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You can discuss about The Song of Achilles here! You can chat here for anything you want about this book. Don't forget to use spoiler tags when needed :)

I finished this book some days ago, and I just loved it soooo much, it became one of my favorites..

(view spoiler)[You know, I actually hated Thetis throughout the whole book, but for some reason, when she burried Patroclus with Achilles together at the ending, something inside me melted. Like I couldn't hate her anymore. Even when I remember all th bad things she did, I can't feel angry at her, just because I know what she did at the end.. It's like she finally understood (hide spoiler)]

i read this book a while ago and i swear i sobbed all night long. It still brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it...

Daphne wrote: "i read this book a while ago and i swear i sobbed all night long. It still brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it..."

That's so true! It's from those books that you don't want to think about in public cause you'll just start crying.

For my 2 coppers, I did not expect much, was pleasantly surprised by the opening, had my hopes raised, dashed, and then slammed into the ground, and straight into Hades. Even the ending was somehow spoiled, because I could immediately think of an improvement. I wanted to enjoy the book, honestly, but it projects too much modern sensibility, pulp, fanfiction, wishful thinking and internal incoherence, to be enjoyable to anyone familiar with the classics. The phrases 'Hollywood history' and 'Disney for adults' come to mind, or simply the word misguided.

Anyway, I wrote a review titled "From Hemingway to Harlequin in a few short chapters" where I put in more detail about its shortcomings and errors, though I probably should have just written a better book instead.