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Product details File Size: March 29, Sold by: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I knew that it would be good -all her books are. I didn't know it would be this good. It's a mistery novel about a young philosopher searching for his kidnapped not-quite-girlfriend.
The prime suspects are those infamous religious zealots, the baby eating Christians. Through the book we are shown a Rome you can't get anywhere else. The closest I know of is the HBO two season series Rome, but here you get a much broader view of the Eternal City, from the backstages of the Colliseum to what slaves gossip while theirs masters are at the orgy.
The mistery, by the way, is a very good one too, but takes second place to the discovery of the city's underbelly. There are two minor quibbles I need to mention note that I didn't take any stars because of them: The second is a little more serious spoilers ahead, procceed at your risk - longtime readers of Mrs Hambly will recognize the hero's two closest allies DNA in various incarnations of her previous work.
The calmly ruthless soldier and the kind sharp -eyed old gentleman that is much more than people takes him for.
Icefalcon and Inglorion Ingold come to mind. All in all, anybody with even a little interest in the imperial Rome, or in historical mistery novels has an obligation to themselves to read this book. A Roman official's daughter is kidnapped, ostensibly by the disgraced Christians. As the young philosopher who loves her desperately tries to find and rescue her, he encounters treacherous friends and unlikely allies and learns more than he cares to about the despised Roman Christians.
This is a mystery, but not a murder mystery.
Hambly excels at re-creating the ambience and attitudes of ancient Rome. I didn't like the endless denigratory comments about Christians, but they were probably authentic to the time, as was the infighting.
The story itself was fairly predictable, but the lively characters mostly kept the plotline moving along. Apparently the Kindle version was scanned and inadequately corrected, as there are a number of typical OCR errors: Barbara Hambly has the gift of seeing history as living people busy with their lives. Her plots are twisty enough to intrigue anyone; her people and places have a vital reality; and her beautifully precise--and very extensive--vocabulary can challenge even an old fashioned English major--without pomposity!
As the Good Book Says The Christians in their constant theological wranglings quote not only the canonical bible but non-canonical books as well. Sixtus is so this. According to Sixtus you can go from one end of Rome to the other without showing your face above ground, and we see enough of the literal underworld to believe him.
The Silani and and the Varii have this and money but it's not enough. As Marcus observes it's the Emperor's freedmen who really run Rome. Sixtus Claudius Julianus is made of this trope.
Roman society is all about this. Rome is so this, and during the reign of one of the 'good' emperors too. We don't see the Imperial Court but Roman politics are very decadent. Deity of Human Origin: The Romans - and Jews - in the book have trouble grasping how an executed carpenter can be God.
Sci-fi fans are raving about this series! You submitted the following rating and review. But I think I could have overlooked that okay, maybe not the names if only I had come to care about the characters and what happened to them. We don't see the Imperial Court but Roman politics are very decadent. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Bride of the Rat God.
The Christians' constant arguments over the question does not help. The Silani are very much this trope. Earn Your Happy Ending: Marcus, and Tertullia Vara, must do this. How Christianity seems to good Romans. Marcus believes the Christians motives are this - until he meets some. Tertullia Vara's kidnapping is assumed to be revenge by the Christians on her father for burning some of their co-religionists at games he gave some years before.