"And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone." 
 -- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles 
 Achilles, Achilles, Achilles... Once again your break my heart and stomps on the pieces. 
 I think we all remembered Troy (2004) , directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the beautiful and tragic story of the hero Achilles and his quest to take on Troy and save the kidnapped Helen. 
 I also think we all remember how that story ends. That movie left me speechless and in pain, but that is nothing to the agony this book brought me. 
 Madeline Miller have taken this story, or myth, that surrounds Achilles, and given it a wonderful and magical twist. In The Song of Achilles we meet Patroclus, an exiled Prince who is sent of to the foreign country of Phitia at the age of 9. There he meets Achilles, a beautiful boy his own age, a master at battle, loved by everyone and with a heart of gold, who becomes his closest friend and later on his lover. 
 They grow up together with love, compassion and creates an unbreakable bond between them. When Achilles is called into battle, at the age of 15 to save Helen, Patroclus goes with him and their problem free life takes a dangerous and deathly turn. 
 "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world." 
 -- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles 
 As I said. We all knows the end to this story. And yet, I couldn't prepare for the blow. 
 It was amazingly bittersweet. 
 This book devoured me, became a part of me and now that part is left bleeding. 
 Thank you Miller. 
 I will gladly live with the heartbreak. Because this was fucking wonderful from start to end. 
 "In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun." 
 -- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles