I couldn't get into this.  I had to switch between paperback and audiobook to get through it.  

I love the subject matter and the fact that the story focused on Achilles and Patroclus growing up together and falling for one another.  It was interesting how they lived with the spectre of both their deaths as they grew older, both knowing that they wouldn't live into old age.  I loved everything about the story except for the fact that I was bored reading/listening to it.  I'm not sure why, but my attention didn't fully perk up until the last few chapters.

I'm going to chalk this up to the reader and not the author.  I will attempt a reread this some other time to see if I perhaps just read it at the wrong time or in the wrong frame of mind.  It's happened to me before and I've ended up loving a book or movie the second time around.

All-in-all I think it was well researched and put together, just couldn't get excited for it.

Meh.  Interesting, but slow.  It's more like a slice-of-life, which I adore, but this is actually kind of boring.

Woo-hoo, the story is finally moving forward. The brief Patroclus and Achilles moments that happened so far was cute. But when the angsty stuff came along, I worried the story would halt, and there would be several pages of Patroclus angsting. I get why he is upset, but reading how he sad he is over and over again is getting old at times. Fortunately, it quickly ends when they commence fighting with Troy.

The Trojan War has begun at last, and some people had already died. I remember my older sister told me about how she kept track of the deaths while reading the Illiad in high school (or middle school? It was a long time ago). She said that there was a lot.  

It has been a while since I resumed this story. I hate to admit that I hesitated to start up again because the pacing so far has been slow. I'm at the part where the Greeks are preparing to fight in the Trojan War. I'll give it one more chapter to go. If the next chapter doesn't hook me, I will be DNFing this book.