The amount of detail and research that the author has put into this book is astounding. Their friendship grows and they fall deeply in love. It spans their lives from when they meet as young boys, training to become soldiers, through various campaigns in adulthood. This is a breathtaking and intensely emotional epic saga detailing the lives and love of two Spartans Axios and Eryx. Don't buy the book if that's a problem for you. I hesitate to even mention this, but, just in case someone misses how this book is listed, there is M/M sex in the book lovingly rendered many times. This is not your traditional lalala- little-bit-of-conflict-then-HEA book. The story is long, but you realize why later when you realize you have been brought into the story so fully and know everyone so well and care about them immensely. Then when I returned I didn't want to listen to anything else. The book seemed to be repetitive to me some time after the halfway mark, so I paused to listen to other books. The narrator ruined me for my immediate next lesson because I either have to hear him again or someone of his caliber, otherwise I can't be satisfied. The writing was so adept and the narrating so excellent and emotive that the end has continued to resonate with me and in me.
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