I don't know what happened, and I need to talk it through, so I apologize but this will be full of spoilers.

But I decided I was going to force myself to finish it this weekend, even if I had to skim through the last 150 pages. Conversely, I had to force myself to pick it up again and again over the almost two months it took me to finish (I even tried it on audio, which just didn't work for me for whatever reason). ¬¬ I expected to be swept up by this book, and find myself unable to put it down. All I knew of Achilles before embarking into this book was the pop culture reference translated into a distant memory of him being the invincible warrior who died because someone kicked his heel? Yes, that definitely sounds about right. I have a mostly superficial knowledge of the main myths from primary school books and I am fairly certain we discussed the broad strokes of the Odyssey in high school 20 years ago, but I have most definitely never read the Illiad. A disclaimer: although I have recently read Mythos by Stephen Fry, my knowledge of Greek mythology is weak at best. Plus, this fit right into the Mythic square on book bingo, and the cover was so pretty in the store that I just had to get it. I feel like social media tends to focus of new releases, so to see a book endure felt like a good omen to me. Anyway, this book is the current darling of booktube, bookstagram and booktok even though it's already 10 years old by now, which I think is quite remarkable. I don't think I have ever read a book that was quite this hyped to me. I thought I didn't care but I couldn't stop crying

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller