A NIGHT OWL REVIEWS BOOK REVIEW | Reviewed by: Lilyraines
The Road to Rome is a wonderful culmination of what started in The Forgotten Legion and continued in The Silver Eagle. It is a story of survival, the chaos and mayhem of the time period, coming to terms with "stuff", finding out that what you know is only part of a bigger picture and that picture may not be one you like, and about what makes people do what they do. It is also a story about sticking with a course - even if it may not seem like the best course when outside forces are factored in. Each character does the best he or she can with the information he or she has. Each has his/her own strength, each does what he/she must to survive, and each character survives in his or her own way. What makes the story really great in my opinion is that even though the characters stick to their decisions for the most part, they do bend in large or small ways and adapt to the situations as each situation evolves. They may wonder, they may doubt, but they accept that they do the best they can with the information they have. A great read involving a very interesting period in history. Re-Issued Review. Now in Trade Paperback. Originally Reviewed 8/8/2011.
Jan 04, 2012 | 9781250002587
5 - Rare Top Pick | 4.5 - Top Pick | 4 - I Liked It | 3.5 - Enjoyable | 3 - OK | 2.5 - It just didn't click
Book Blurb for The Road to Rome
In 48 B.C., having survived a disastrous campaign in Pythia as part of the Forgotten Legion and spent years fighting their way back to Rome, Romulus and Tarquinius have finally made it as far as Alexandria. On arrival, though, they find themselves in the midst of the Roman Civil War, are press-ganged into Caesar’s thinning legions and greatly outnumbered and fighting for their lives against the Egyptian army. Meanwhile in Rome, Romulus’ twin sister Fabiola, having caught only a glimpse of her long-missing twin before being forced to flee Egypt for Rome, lives in fear for her life, loved by Brutus, but wooed by Marcus Antonius, his deadly enemy. From the battlefields of Asia Minor and North Africa, to the lawless streets of Rome and the gladiator arena, they all face death and danger daily, until 44 B.C. when their individual roads all lead them to Rome where the future of the republic lies unexpectedly in their hands.
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