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Title: Good battle scenes, missing character connection & development
Review: Pressfield does an excellent job of describing battle scenes and a decent job of creating the culture of the Amazons and the Greeks.However, what breaks the story is that it is told from several points of view - none of which have voice changes. The "voice" of each "narrator" is basically the same. The voice of a middle aged Greek warrior and the voice of his niece (either as an old woman or as a young girl) would be different, just as the voice of Selene would be. If the author hadn't noted who was telling what part of the story, you would never have guessed that it was a different person. I don't think this leads to strong character development and I couldn't quite get myself to care, on any level, about the characters. The over all impression was a flat one - a finely tuned world with characters that can't quite connect with the reader.
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