Simon is one of my favourite writers, his books never fail to entertain and I was so excited when I heard about his latest project that centres around Freddie, a complete wallflower with a 'nice guy' persona and a healthy appetite for cheese and doughnuts.Īfter being mistaken for a waiter at the launch party for his mum's new tv show, and getting off on the wrong foot with the (very cute) star of the show, Freddie decides it's time to start putting himself out there and getting noticed. “Kissed a boy, nearly had a date, told lies, screwed it up, died lonely and bitter.” It's summer, which means a new YA novel from Simon James Green!! “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” So, if you think you'd enjoy losing yourself in Greek mythology, with a brilliant yet tragic queer storyline, and characters who feel real, you'll love The Song of Achilles. It made my heart heavy and light so many times, and while the pacing isn't particularly fast, the characters and the emotional writing kept me gripped from start to finish.
While the emotion in this story didn't bring me to tears, as I'd been promised (although the ending brought me extremely close) it was no less there.
His relationship with Achilles seems simple at first, but it grows and changes, as the characters do, until it becomes something complex, gritty, and real, giving much more weight to the story than a simple romance. He's a fantastic narrator, so well developed that I could hear his voice in my head, and my heart broke for him several times throughout the book. Ultimately though, it was the characters, particularly Patroclus, that made this book incredible. I was transported to Ancient Greece the moment I started reading and found the entire world fascinating. I want to begin by saying that the prose in this book is beautiful, complex and completely immersive. I'm a huge lover of Greek mythology, so much so that I'm writing my own Greek myth-inspired story, and after reading Lore by Alexandra Bracken earlier this year, I was desperate for a more adult mythology re-telling.
Like most people, I've heard this book mentioned A LOT but other than knowing it was a Trojan War re-telling, that it featured a queer romance, and that it was 'guaranteed to make me cry, I didn't really know what to expect. “There are no bargains between lion and men.
This book was incredible, but not quite how I'd expected.
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