While I finished this book, i won't be reading any others in the series. I found the lack of character development and the skipping over several centuries at a time quite annoying. This could have been a really good read if the author had developed this single novel into the whole series, properly developing the characters and feel for the different periods in Roman Britain. The historical research was excellent, I loved the way the feel of the towns and the different eras were conveyed, it really gave a sense of the history. A good concept let down by poor execution.