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“Started reading this series during the summer of 1991, while I was a high schooler working at the yogurt shop, needing something to keep me busy during the slow hours.
crystal t wrote this review Sunday, September 6 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I've read the whole series now, & love it. It's really dense and can be a little much with all the Latin family names.”
“Fascinating continuation of Colleen McCullough's Master's of Rome series. This is the second book in the series of seven and it covers the Civil/Social war under the eventual leadership of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. It deals largely with the rise of Sulla to leadership both in military campaigns as well as policital power. It finishes with the fall of Gauis Marius, the third founder of Rome, as his mind fails following two strokes and he takes over Rome in a blood bath, killing anyone in Rome who once stood against him. It is his final goal before dying to subdue the rising star of Gauis Julius Caesar, which he supposedly does so by placing him in the role of a lifelong priesthood. The tale ends there, but we all know that Julius Caesar is not out for good and is destined to become the greatest man Rome has ever or will ever see.
Scott F wrote this review Thursday, October 23 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I continue to enjoy this series and am continually fascinated by how developed society was even thousands of years ago. The struggles of society not all that different than today, only without the western influence of Christianity.”
“If you like history, but find reading it to be boring, this is a fun way to learn a few facts (and a few guesses) about Roman history.”
Linda H wrote this review Monday, October 6 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I liked the book...but some parts of the book was to tedious. I'm not that fond about reading about war, and this book had a lot of wars. But it was nice to finally read about Julius Caesar, the character I'm most interested to read about and the ending of the book was good and hopefully the next book will be much more interesting since Julius Caesar will get a bigger part of the story than in this book.”
Mara Jade wrote this review Tuesday, June 10 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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