Having read about them from age 7 all the way on up to their mid thirties. My stomach would be in knots every time they went off to war!Īll the characters in this book were wonderful. They needed every skill possible in order to survive being out in war.

They did what was told of them.Īs I read on these boys became men and I understood why they had such hard training from an early age. For the life that was so cruelly dealt to them. They break these young boys down and build them back up to be emotionless killing machines. The things these poor boys have to go through at such a young age. The author takes you on this great and very realistic journey to becoming a spartan warrior.

This book seriously need to be made into a movie! The vivid picture it paints while you’re reading it. I don’t even know where to start with this review. This is ABSOULETY the best story of love, friendship in the era where war was brutal and young men died at such early ages! The Story of Axio and Eryx as they journey through the trails of brutal training together, friendship that turns into a powerful love, until they reach manhood and into many wars as Spartan warriors this is a must read!!! Where Axio questioned the reasons for war Eryx was determined to be the best Spartan Warrior! Through the years Eryx was just what Axio needed to help him develop into the Spartan Warrior that he needed to become! Along the way the two found they shared more then just friendship but a love like no other! Axio felt he had so many weakness as he watched so many of his brothers die at the hands of their enemies but in truth Eryx had the biggest weakness of them all his love for Axios! He feared that he would not be able to handle the brutality of training until he reached adulthood until his eyes met those of the greenest color! A young boy stood out among the rest with his green eyes and friendly face helped him withstand his challenge and from that day on Eryx and him became inserapable! Axio and Eryx were the complete opposite of the other. To be a Spartan warrior you have to be strong, fierce, fight without emotion and die the true Spartans death! To try and run from that denstiny will mark him as a coward and will shame not only himself but his family.Īxio was not prepared for that way of life at the age of 7, for he was small and not strong as others his age. A time period in which boys are ripped from their families at the young age of 7 and trained to become warriors to fight and die for their God's! They are trained to kill and have no mercy on slaves or those they feel are not worthy of the Spartans or their way of life.

This is a story unlike no other I have read before.

Axios by Jaclyn Osborn