Alexander Trilogy: Fire from Heaven (Paperback)

from Helen.Callaghan

This was amazing - where's Mary Renault been all my life?! It's a beautifully imagined retelling of the youth of Alexander the Great, and the ancient world it describes is gorgeously alien and yet psychologically authentic. Apparently there are another two books of this, so know what I'll be r...

from thesmellofbooks

An astonishing book, in its beauty, intensity, and brilliance. Renault is vast in her capabilities. She has not only written a fully believable and entrancing story about equally believable humans, she has a huge understanding of the times in which it took place. She has a sensitivity toward her ...

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...

from SeriousGrace

The story of Alexander the Great opens with Alexander as a young child waking to find a snake in bed with him. He assumes it is his mother's pet snake, Glaukos. From there we are, guided by Renault's excellent storytelling, witness to Alexander's rise to greatness with fiction interwoven with non...

from maryh10000

Mary Renault's books will always be my view of Alexander the Great.