Torn From Troy

My original Torn from Troy audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer. Many have used Homer’s Odyssey and told the tale differently – focusing on different aspects of the tale or changing the time period and place. Patrick Bowman takes the tale of Odyssey and tells it from th......more

Torn From Troy was an amazing book.The story flows smoothly and is action packed even at the begining. for example when the greeks got inside the city and he and his siter had to hide uder a blanket in the darkest corner of the room well the greeks came. And also at the begining they leave some myst......more

I'm not entirely sure how to classify this book. It's an adaptation of the classic, Homer's Odyssey, set in ancient times but told from the perspective of a young boy taken as a slave in the raid on the city of Troy. Not having read The Odyssey in many years, it was a bit hard for me to remember the......more

This book review is on the intriguing novel: Torn from Troy by Patrick Bowman. I really enjoyed this novel because it is a nice short novel that you can read and love but it doesn’t leave you wanting more, and when your finished the book you don’t regret using your time to read it. I probably also l......more

This book starts off int he thick of action with Troy’s defenses having succumbed to Odysseus’s trick (the Trojan Horse). Alexi and his older sister were orphaned during the lengthy years-long siege on Troy. Alexi himself is half-Greek and his heritage may put him in greater danger. While Alexi’s si......more