Dreaming the Bull
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should I keep reading or is it all doom, gloom, betrayal and torture?
Maryanne
Jul 06, 2013 02:21AM
I really want to read this series - I love the premise.
However, i only just made it through Boudica #1, read some of B#2 and gave it up. I just don't want to keep reading about her brother debasing and losing himself any more, or what a great warrior she is when she seems quite domestic, but mainly just the Romans doing terrible thing after terrible thing - I get the picture.
Does the plot change any?
However, i only just made it through Boudica #1, read some of B#2 and gave it up. I just don't want to keep reading about her brother debasing and losing himself any more, or what a great warrior she is when she seems quite domestic, but mainly just the Romans doing terrible thing after terrible thing - I get the picture.
Does the plot change any?
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Maryanne, if you were not terribly enamoured with the Dreaming... series try Scott's Rome series, about Sebastos Pantera, the spy and in #3, the main character was Demalion of Macedon, a soldier, with Pantera appearing briefly. Scott's writing is excellent and this is a great series--what I've read--#3 [Eagle of the 12th: a tribute to Rosemary Sutcliff's Eagle of the 9th, obviously!] and #4 [The art of war: this one covered Year of the 4 emperors and rise of Vespasian to emperor]. I'm assuming #1 & #2 are worth reading too.
PS: There was too much fantasy in the Boudicca series for my taste, but the writing was also very good--and I did like the brother but not her.
BTW, I did read all 4.
PS: There was too much fantasy in the Boudicca series for my taste, but the writing was also very good--and I did like the brother but not her.
BTW, I did read all 4.
I too read all four books in the series, and if you know your history, you know it's not going to end well. I finished the series and found a sense of loss that I would not read any more. I suppose that's a sense of how good and absorbing the books are.
It's the nature of such books that when you choose a perspective the enemy will be demonised.
It's the nature of such books that when you choose a perspective the enemy will be demonised.
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