Sion’s Reviews > The Song of Achilles > Status Update

You know that this book is going to be a different sort of read when the narrator's first sentence is "My father was a king and the son of kings". It quickly transpires that his inferiority complex and subsequent problems arise from this lowly status (it's all relative) causing conflicts with his gay lover whose parentage is king and goddess......

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