Perfectly passable, though not as good as the first in the series.

The author made the frankly baffling choice to remove any supernatural or mythological elements from the story of the Trojan war. I generally don't care for this trend in media dealing with stories that initially had fantastical elements. You know the ones, oh here’s a story about centaurs but they’re just normal humans that are really good at horseback riding, here’s the kernel of truth that inspired something epic and magical. I tend to think it doesn’t add anything to the story and that usually the supernatural elements were there in the first place for a darn good reason. This decision is all the more confusing since the first book in this quartet DID have supernatural elements. Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite actually appeared in the Judgement of Paris, Achilles’ mother is literally a sea goddess, the gods exist and take a direct role in mortal affairs, just as they did in the mythology. The absence of textual supernatural elements in this second book honestly does a disservice to the source material.