Books I've read since May 18th reviews
Firebringer: "wait didn't this happen in Watership Down"
Watership Down: Watership Down
The Last Unicorn: still my favorite book
The Winter King: Solid, really engaging, might qualify as my favorite historical fiction book I've read in recent years if it can be counted as 'historical fiction' but that's a stretch. Whole series is hit and miss and there's a lot of aspects that I have major gripes with, but levels out on 'I like it'. Confused at the postulated minuscule size of armies in post-Roman Britain.
Excalibur: Not as good as the other two but still preddy solid
Clan of the Cave Bear: please write a formal apology to Homo neanderthalensis
Shaman: Didn't know how to feel about this the first time and still don't, I'm gonna say "enjoyed it"/"preddy good"'/"leaps high above the low bar of 'better fiction taking place in ice age Europe than the Earth's Children series'", you did not have to make these people call semen 'spurtmilk' especially since the word was going to be used so often but you did and that's jsut how it is. Really like the depiction of neanderthals in this one, it rings true to me personally as to what homo sapiens/homo neanderthalensis interactions might have actually been like (meaning "varied").
The Song of Achilles: If this book was a person I would kill them on sight. I wouldn't be able to control myself. I would black out and then wake up 48 hours later covered in blood and dirt with bits of human flesh stuck under my fingernails and lodged in between my teeth. I'd go to take a shower and scrub myself off, watching blood curl its way down the drain, and I would know exactly what I'd done. And I would feel nothing.
The last quarter or so of the Iliad (not pictured): 2.5/10 similes too long
The King Must Die: I like the approach and a lot of the concepts but I was never hooked on anything Beyond the conceptual. That cover art is cool.