I’m usually anti-romance but it’s so…so good. I detest the clichés but the book…superb.

I studied Classics for years and not a single person told me “Achilles and Patroclus were a thing.” I was not told about Aeschylus’s The Myrmidons or Plato’s The Symposium (where he rightly says Patroclus was the top and Achilles was the bottom). I was not even given Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida which has them as lovers. I wasn’t told Alexander the Great was a Patrochilles fan and when his best bro-being-dude bro Hephaestion died, Alexander mourned just as Achilles did and even both worshipped the duo at Troy.

I haven’t cried from it, but I immediately bought Hades when I found out about it and totally got into that game because…>!they end up happily deadly after.!<

This book is dangerous because I can’t stop thinking about them. Great book, but it changes you.