This is the first time i've seen Rick have twin protagonist like this and try to make them equally important! Both of their personalities shown through equally and beautifully! I enjoyed their fun bickering classic Riordan style among the more serious tone of the story!! Rick using real Egyptian facts and history always makes me happy in the long run, go Rick!

I love Henry&Alice's interactions and banter 🤭 it's the best part

If this vindicates Helen as being an airhead with a pretty face or a selfish slut or whatever I'm gonna riot.

Every year I try to read one intimidating (or lengthy or dense or “difficult”) book to not only try to better improve my reading skills, but because there are also just a lot of books I’ve been wanting to read and have been a lil too scared to jump in.

I’ve been thinking about next year and what book I might choose, and I’ve been wanting to get into reading more Greek lit, especially the epics, for a long time. I own both The Iliad and The Odyssey, but not sure which one is best to start with. What would you guys recommend? Anything I should know before diving in? Any tips?

Also, I’m not the most…advanced or “intellectual” reader (hence the whole trying to read more challenging books thing) and a part of me is a bit intimidated and worried I’ll have a hard time understanding what’s going on. So any tips or thoughts on that would be much appreciated too! . . . Some background if it’s helpful: I read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology and a couple of excerpts from The Odyssey 10ish years ago for high school. I have a pretty good general understanding of the events that occur in The Odyssey (thanks to a “dumbed” down middle grade book version I read not too long ago and EPIC: The Musical [I know quite a few liberties were taken with the latter]). I know next to nothing about the Iliad.

Its been over a month im still recovering 🙃 😭