The Alexander Trilogy: Funeral Games (Series #3) (Paperback)

from lorax

The first two novels in Renault's Alexander trilogy, Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, were outstanding. Funeral Games, however, lacks the strong narrative voice or central character of the first two; not only does Alexander die early in the novel, but the point of view shifts throughout the ...

from saturnloft

This book, the final volume in Mary Renault's Alexander the Great trilogy, covers the events right after Alexander's death. Without Alexander's powerful personality to provide unity and focus, his astonishing empire is quickly deteriorating into a mess of intrigue and entropy. Funeral Games kind ...

from krasiviye.slova

Somewhat dissappointing. Renault uses multiple third person narrators instead of the single first person narrator used in The King Must Die and The Persian Boy. The novel fails to create the emotional resonance of the other two -- partly because of the change in narration and partly because so fe...

from michellegarrette

My favorite book of the trilogy. This was the one that felt the most historical and the least fictional. What a time to live through.... or to try to live through.

from LisaMaria_C

My introduction to Mary Renault was The King Must Die, the first of two novels about Theseus--it was actually assigned reading in high school. What impressed me so much there was how she took a figure out of myth and grounded him historically. After that I quickly gobbled up all of Renault's work...