I have to admit up front that this is not something that I would normally pick up and read. This book has been so hyped up all across social media, and my friend has been begging me to read it. I had a little bit of a hard time getting into it, which was probably more of a me problem than a problem with the book. I have to be really in the mood for a fiction book, and I got this one on a library loan and was trying to finish it. I think I would have enjoyed it much more if I was in the mood to read a fiction. That being said...

This book did a retelling of The Iliad, which I haven't read since I was in high school. I like mythology and I can get behind a retelling if they are interesting and well written. This one was both of those things. This book featured a lot of characters that are familiar from mythology, and I really enjoyed reading a more detailed personification of them. This book was extremely romantic in a way that I had not expected, and featured plenty of heart wrenching quotations that I immediately wrote down. I am glad that I finished reading this, because it was worth it in the end.