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A review by mgcco
A Mist of Prophesies by Steven Saylor
4.0
First of all, the OC in me: the Kindle version had some typos, which distracted me at times. Very minor issue, though.
Among Saylor's books (in the Roma Sub-Rosa series) that I have read so far, A Mist of Prophecies can be described as the most "chic." Unlike the previous two novels, Gordianus stayed in Rome to interview, not soldiers and generals for a change, but a bunch of women (most of them powerful).
I liked the way Saylor decided to focus on the way Roman women held influence on their men and Roman politics, albeit in a hush-hush way. As Saylor said at the end of the book: "As remarkable as these women must have been, no ancient historians saw fit to leave us a biography of any of them; to write the life story of a woman was beyond Plutarch's imagination. The reader who wishes to know more about them will find only scattered crumbs, not the rich banquet afforded to anyone with an appetite for Pompey, Caesar, or any number of other men of antiquity."
Liked the book. However, I must say that I was not as eager to find out about Cassandra's killer as I was about Numerius's (in Rubicon). The ending--well, I expected more (again, pure sentimentality on my part heehee).
Among Saylor's books (in the Roma Sub-Rosa series) that I have read so far, A Mist of Prophecies can be described as the most "chic." Unlike the previous two novels, Gordianus stayed in Rome to interview, not soldiers and generals for a change, but a bunch of women (most of them powerful).
I liked the way Saylor decided to focus on the way Roman women held influence on their men and Roman politics, albeit in a hush-hush way. As Saylor said at the end of the book: "As remarkable as these women must have been, no ancient historians saw fit to leave us a biography of any of them; to write the life story of a woman was beyond Plutarch's imagination. The reader who wishes to know more about them will find only scattered crumbs, not the rich banquet afforded to anyone with an appetite for Pompey, Caesar, or any number of other men of antiquity."
Liked the book. However, I must say that I was not as eager to find out about Cassandra's killer as I was about Numerius's (in Rubicon). The ending--well, I expected more (again, pure sentimentality on my part heehee).