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How does this compare to Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles? I loved that book.

Vesper While I love The Song of Achilles, Patroclus love for Achilles colors his telling of the story. The Silence of the Girls is much more critical of the …moreWhile I love The Song of Achilles, Patroclus love for Achilles colors his telling of the story. The Silence of the Girls is much more critical of the man (and monster) that Achilles was. I would say The Song of Achilles is more of a love story while The Silence of the Girls is about surviving in the midst of war and all the horrors that entails plus the complicated emotions that arise when forced to live with and serve those who conquered you. This book gives Briseis and all the other women a voice that The Song of Achilles does not. (less)

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