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No. This is weird, author.

It’s too bad but I can’t fault the author entirely. She started the story on a certain track and any deviation or nuance is impossible at this point.

Does the author mean the port of Trebuki because the major port of Linaria is actually very big. She must mean Trebuki

No, actually, sea travel is quite fast, but I guess it depends on the wind. Actually, you can go and use ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World and see for yourself. — “I had never been at sea before and was surprised at how slow it was.”

Also, why is this scene so confrontational? Patroclus could have just as easily calmly walked in and asked.

Wait, all you need to do to make a King do your bidding is to kneel and hold his chin? What’s happening here with the power dynamics? Also, where are the guards?

Patroclus starts having a panic attack because his crush went to hang out with his own mom. I don’t think sixteen year old boys are this neurotic. Do women enjoy reading this faux conflict?

Bronze Age Greeks did not have contact with India. Even Hecataeus was a long time after the mythical Trojan War.

Author has the subtlety of a rock slide.

Wait, why do Achilles and Patroclus like each other again? Besides Achilles being pretty, I mean.

Ah, what a convoluted complication, but I appreciate the author’s machinations.

Can I guess? It is either a betrothal or war. How are we still only on Act 1?

I just talked to a friend of mine and she says this book has become one of her favorites. She said she also wondered how the gay men community feel about it, but then she said it didn’t matter because it was a good book, and I wonder how many other readers felt the same way.

I don’t know about this idea that sea nymphs can go anywhere they want. But I guess they’re not mermaids so technically they can walk around

right. a well placed message. i see you, author.

You know, this reads so much like a F/M love scene that I wonder if it’s true, and I’m curious to read what gay men have to say about it.

Was she somehow compelled? I know we’re trying to get this moment of anxiety and tension but there’s nothing motivating her to say that.

Ever since Han Solo… — “…pleasure in his eyes. “I know,” he said.”

Have you noticed that romance authors always use this phrasing? — “…our fingers and chins sticky with sweetness.”

Dear author, I fractured my leg once and it was no joke.

I know this isn’t the book for this but it would be interesting to understand how Chiron lives in a paltry cave after teaching the most illustrious heroes. Is he not rewarded for his efforts? Maybe as a half-horse he doesn’t need anything, but then how did he acquire those tools?

It doesn’t make sense—whatever, whatever!

You just said you were running and sweating profusely, of course your skin is cold. Also, what is the sound of a man being silent like? Also, you’ve characterized him as a feeble waste of space, never trined in anything, and missing of any skill in tracking, so how does he hear a silent man?

I have felt despair and I’ve never confused it for hunger. But I understand the writing urge to write that sentence. — “There was an ache in my stomach, like hunger or despair.”

chapter 7: exposition on girls; Achilles tease Patroclus; Patroclus has a dream; Patroclus and Achilles moment at the beach; Achilles unannounced departure

They weren’t countries back then, they were city-states. — “In our countries, they were not worth much.”

I’m finding the trick to this book is to ignore a lot of it.

We get the “I’ve never felt this way before” moment.

Sure. — “I can smell him.”

Forced proximity pays off. — “He ran at me, pushed me backwards onto my cot.”