The Song of Achilles

Even when I disliked the characters (which was most of the time, I couldn't help but be invested in their story). Miller did a good job of writing Patroclus' displacement and feelings of uselessness. Thus, by the time the story is in full swing and Patroclus' whole personality seems to be I love Achilles , the reader understands exactly how he got there. However, it was really lovely to see him come into his own in the last 20% of the book and develop his own self worth and ideas. Achilles on the other hand was much more difficult to like, particularly in the end, but very few people who had experienced such mass adoration and adulation would have remained level-headed