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Heartstopper (2022)/S3E4 · Journey/Isaac's tearjerker: The Song of Achilles
Heartstopper · Season 3, Episode 4, "Journey"

Isaac's tearjerker: The Song of Achilles

Isaac Henderson (Tobie Donovan) · The park

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Charlie recommends The Song of Achilles by text in episode two. By episode four Isaac is reading it in the park and complaining to Charlie about how much it made him cry. Everybody who has read it saw that coming.

Sources: All the books Isaac reads in Heartstopper, season three, Meeghan reads · Every book that Isaac reads in Heartstopper, Kobo · Isaac's reading list in Heartstopper season 3, Nose in a Book · Every Book Isaac Reads in Heartstopper Season 3, Den of Geek · A Complete Heartstopper Book List, The Geeky Waffle
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The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller · 2011 · novel

Madeline Miller's 2011 retelling of the Iliad as a love story between Achilles and Patroclus won the Orange Prize in 2012, then had a second life on BookTok with videos of people sobbing at the ending. The ending is in Homer. Isaac had about 2,700 years of warning.

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