Just didn't like it
Sword & Sandals bodice ripper
I am obviously in the minority ... it went on to win the Orange Award after I read it and before I got to write this review ... but it doesn't change my opinion.
I thought this was shallow and trite. So, big deal, they were in a young homosexual relationship, but this seemed to be the repeated point of the novel. Rather than the epic tale, this was nothing more than bodice-ripper. Achilles ... sigh ... Patroclus ... sigh. Enough already!!! Don't care a fig about their sexual orientation, this just didn't provide the historical reality I expected and this was Homer-lite. I thought the author did not do "male" voice well and got away with it by making gush in a girly fashion.
