Siyuan's review of The Last of the Wine
The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
The first two-thirds of the book really got to me. I really cared about the two main characters and the secondary characters (for me, Phaedo more than Socrates), and was anxious to see how the war against Sparta would impact them. But I kind of felt like Renault didn't quite know where to end her story, because the last third (while probably quite realistic and inevitable) seemed to dull and undermine all of the drama and emotion of the rest of the book.
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