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Years ago I devoured Lindsey Davis's Roman mystery series, then I went through Stephen Saylor's Roman mystery series, then I guess I moved on. But when I stumbled across this first book in a mystery series featuring a Roman Army doctor, I thought it could be fun to revisit ancient times. This one takes place about 200 years after Saylor's series, and about 40 after Davis's -- in AD 117. It opens in Deva (present day Chester, England, about ten miles south of Liverpool), where Gaius Petreius Ruso
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Currently reading this and I find it rather exasperating. Her style is packed with dialogue but not very descriptive, and it's set in Roman Britain! (Point being, I'd like more visual descriptions of the characters and atmospherics of the place.) It's taking forever to get to the point where I care about the characters--I'm about halfway through. I just don't buy the dialogue either, having studied Latin in school. Wish I liked the main character more, wish I was rooting for him to get together
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Very entertaining, I caught myself laughing out loud so many times. Gaius may be the straight man in the comedy, but the author's dry humor comes right through. I am already planning to read the next installments in this series. The Roman England setting is lovely, although there are more than a few anachronisms.
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