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    <body><![CDATA[Too much protagonist turnover (never-ending stream of suicides and murders) for my taste.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sequel to Fire From Heaven.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Depressing.  Oh dear lord, was it bad - but not because the writing was bad, but because the content was sad.  Well, it is entitlted &quot;Funeral&quot; games.  I digress.<br/><br/>Thoroughly intricate and clever.  Multiple interesting, and opposing characters, for all of whom we successfully symp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1343241">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not going to lie; I haven't finished this book, and I don't think I will for the same reason I could never bring myself to read the last of the Mary Stewart books. It's just too sad to see everything all falling apart. I really tried, I just wasn't enjoying it, so I took it back to the library.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh. I felt like I needed a hot shower to scrub the muck of this book off when I was done. Almost no one acquits themselves well in this last of the trilogy, and Renault attempts too many different points of view, so there's almost no one to sympathize with. Only Ptolemy comes out of it relatively u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5111635">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i found some disappointment that so little was told of Krateros in this book.  even Ptolemy was a minor charcter.  this book focuses on the leading women and Perdikas and Cassander.<br/><br/>still, a good way to understand the post-alexander turmoil.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[As this final installment in the Alexander the Great trilogy opens we find the general dying. Tracing the fifteen years after his death we see his mighty empire disintegrate.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another book I could not put down for weeks, It tells the story of what happened after the death of Alexander The Great, cout intrigue, and Murder. Well worth a read. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Funeral Games]]>
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    <![CDATA[“Renault’s best historical novel yet.... Every detail has solid historical testimony to support it.”–New York Review of Books <br/><br/>After Alexander’s death in 323 B.C .his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives, and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in the attempt. For no one possessed the leadership to keep the great empire from crumbling. But Alexander’s legend endured to spread into worlds he had seen only in dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good historical info, but a bit hard to follow with the central character dead and no real protagonist to take his place.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Funeral Games (Alexander the Great, #3)]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always enjoy history as a story. I wonder knowing the history better would have made this more or less enjoyable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this might be a love it or hate it book.  I loved it.  Couldn't put it down.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Funeral Games (Alexander the Great, #3)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Funeral Games (Alexander the Great, #3)]]>
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