This book was excellent! It grabbed my attention in the beginning and only got better and more exciting as it continued.

Steven Pressfield has written many books, greatest among them, Gates Of Fire, the epic fictional tale of the 300 Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae. This book, Last Of The Amazons, is just as good in every detail. At first I was not sure, the beginning was slow and his wordplay hard to follow. After a couple chapters though the magnanimity of Pressfield’s brilliance shines through. The attention to detail is spectacular. Both of these books prove that as a historical fiction author Steven Pressfield is among the very best. I can not stress enough how good these books are and that you should read them. (BrianBoy)

Όταν τελείωσα το βιβλίο ένιωσα κανοποίηση για την επιλογή μου να εμπιστευθω ξανά τον Pressfield.

Amazing how Pressfield created a whole culture!!! He must have taken elements from every steppe culture he read about and added a big dollop of imagination. The way he kept changing from narrator to narrator was very confusing, but I did enjoy the basic story. If you've never read any other Pressfield, this might be more enjoyable, but there is no comparison with Gates of Fire!

I beg the would be reader to notice that the majority of people who have given this book a one star rating did not finish it. My husband also took this book up and became so instantly frustrated with it that he didn't even make the hundred page mark. The reason is the writing style of this work (sorry Steven you know I love you but this is true) was absolutely atrocious. It was VERY choppy, especially at the start. He changes perspectives faster than the reader can get into the characters. However, with this in mind I must say the book is still amazing. What I would recommend would be a quick read of about the first half. Do a speed read so you know the characters and you get the idea of the plot. Then really indulge in the last half. The last half paints some entirely world wide heroic pictures of these amazon warriors. He unleashes them with serious force. The one on one combat scene between the queen of the amazons and Theseus is probably one of his best written battles that I have read, and the riding out and clashing of arms is epic in scope. The story involves sisters and is well thought out and complex. But damn Steven the perspective was so off on this one. A birds eye view or a single storyteller would have made this work amazing. Be warned, this book is bloody like his others, and frankly the choppiness may ruin it for you. If you can get past that you will have some very amazing images of warrior women running around in your head after reading this one. Choose to pick it up accepting this as it is or don't bother.

Wonderful tale

Equal to Gates of Fire in its telling of ancient Greece and the legend of the Amazons. Revealing in its stories of man and woman, civilization and savagery.

2*t

Passado em 1250 a.C. - uma geração antes da famosa Guerra de Tróia - esta obra descreve o conflito entre os Atenienses e as Amazonas; a organização da futura pólis vs as estepes das mulheres livres e indomáveis.
É também a história de amor entre Teseu, o famoso herói grego que derrotara o Minotauro de Creta, e de Antípe, a rainha Amazona.

2*t
A constante alternância de perspectivas, apesar de conferir dinamismo à narrativa ,também suscita alguma confusão até entendermos qual a personagem que narra os acontecimentos..

Não consegui gostar e nem consegui perceber o porquê, mas foi uma leitura que não fluiu.
Talvez numa releitura venha a dar o devido valor a esta obra – ou não. Mas para já não me conseguiu cativar e li por ler. Fiquei muito desapontada porque achei que ia amar este livro visto tratar-se da história das míticas Amazonas, ou melhor, as tal kyrte.

a 400 page comicbook

I didn't enjoy the first half, the battle itself was interesting.

Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield: Very good, very detailed, flows like super rich molasses not an easy read. The Author is obviously an expert of high intelligence on all things ancient and Greek. If I wasn't listening to this as an audiobook I doubt if I would have made it past the first few pages of names. Greek names (at times it seems he names every Amazon officer in the army by name as well as every opponent), it adds to the authenticity but sure slow down the flow. Long like Homer Odyssey and very similar in tone and in it's epic scale this is a high definition image of what this very knowledgeable author imagine a prehistorical accounting of a war between people of a city against people of the open plains, a war between men and women, a war that was fought before Troy but could have been used to fill out that heroic saga. A myth, a legend, here in the deep academic knowledge of the author does Amazon culture takes shape and at the height of it's power turn to face down and fight the city of Athens and it's allies to the death. I recommend the audiobook which does have weirdly long 30 second pauses between each chapter. Still worth the effort four stars.

I am impressed by Pressfield's research on all his Hellenic related books, though I can't say I loved this particular one.

engaging but the language was strangely archaic