I too love the Iliad! And yeah, I wanted both a totally different Achilles and a Pagroclus who managed to fit in some character development a little earlier than right before Imminent Doom. I was a bit startled to see that this won the Orange Prize.
I did, however, completely miss the tense-switching (possibly I have been reading too many present tense fanfics!). Oops.
Having just poked around your Goodreads account, I wasn't wild about Ginn Hale's Wicked Gentlemen either, although I loved The Lord of the White Hell duology. The Rifter does a lot of things very well, most of which involve spoilers, but in particular it has a real sense of another world that is not a cod-fantasy Europe, with a real depth to it. It also has a brilliant hook, and then a slow build that snuck up on me until I found myself totally hooked.
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Date: 2013-07-08 08:51 am (UTC)I did, however, completely miss the tense-switching (possibly I have been reading too many present tense fanfics!). Oops.
Having just poked around your Goodreads account, I wasn't wild about Ginn Hale's Wicked Gentlemen either, although I loved The Lord of the White Hell duology. The Rifter does a lot of things very well, most of which involve spoilers, but in particular it has a real sense of another world that is not a cod-fantasy Europe, with a real depth to it. It also has a brilliant hook, and then a slow build that snuck up on me until I found myself totally hooked.