The Song of Achilles

I spent 90% of this book thinking about the movie Troy. I think the audiobook narrator did too. He was TOTALLY doing a Sean Bean impression for Odysseus.

Anyway, this book was tactile, earthy, rich. My book club went on and on about how the writing was sub-par but they are VERY WRONG, I loved this writing. It was like mid-2000s fanfic. In fact, I even started to suspect that Madeline Miller was a livejournal fanfic author I was reading in the mid-2000s, post-Troy, post-LOTR fannish euphoria: QueenOfThorns, is that you???

Super fun. I love these big, bombastic, heroic legends brought down to (fanfic) human size. This was great.