The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Title: The Song of Achilles

Author: Madeline Miller

Date Read: January 29th 2018

Published: September 20th 2011 @ Bloomsbury

Genre: Mythology Retelling/Historical Fiction

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

"Name one hero who was happy... You can't. They never let you be famous and happy... I'm going to be the first. Swear it."  

"Why me?"  

"Because you're the reason. Swear it." 

"I swear it."

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The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepard

Title: The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter #1)

Author: Megan Shepard

Date Read: December 29th, 2017
Published: January 29th 2013 @ Balzer + Bray
Genre: YA Horror/Historical Fiction

Rating: ⭐⭐

"Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn't bother me. I was my father's daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things."

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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Title: A Gentleman in Moscow

Author: Amor Towles

Date Read: May 16 2017 

Published: September 6 2016 @ Viking

Genre: Adult Historical Fiction

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

“I’ll tell you what is convenient,” he said after a moment. “To sleep until noon and have someone bring you your breakfast on a tray. To cancel an appointment at the very last minute. To keep a carriage waiting at the door of one party, so that on a moment’s notice it can whisk you away to another. To sidestep marriage in your youth and put off having children altogether. These are the greatest of conveniences, Anushka—and at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.”

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