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** spoiler alert ** Troy was a very strange book to me. I picked the book out of our school library thinking “oh, it might be a cool book about the attack on Troy, action-packed and all that.�� I wasn’t expecting all that came from the book, especially the love stories. There was much more “love-making�� than I had anticipated (which I thought would have been none). However, it did have some good storytelling, which is why I gave it three out of five stars. On page 240, Marpessa and Alastor talk about an issue after having done “love-making��. The quote I used for my Foster project was “I’m to be wed,�� he said, staring at the ground between his knees, and in such a low voice that Marpessa had to lean forward to catch his words. “My mother has arranged for it all to take place in a few days…��. This could be taken as an act of rebellion from Alastor against his mother. His mother was seen as unkind to many, and it is understandable why most would not like her. They also implement stories that were previously made up, like Odysseus traveling back to Ithaca, and the giant Trojan horse used to start the fall of Troy. The Mark of Greatness is also seen throughout the story as the two sisters, Marpessa and Xanthe, can be seen communicating with gods. They also have some dramatic irony, as most know that within the Trojan horse, many Greeks were packed tightly. The characters of the story, however, had no clue of what was in store for them later. I believe that this story is definitely made for the young teen type. I said before that I was expecting this story to be much more action-packed and more adventurous, like some similar books I have read. Perhaps I thought it would be similar to works of the old Greek writers, similar to the Odyssey and stories told way back then. However, I should have read the back summary of the book. I believe that this book was still worth the read, which is why I gave it a three out of five stars rating.