The mystery of who Miriam's in love with - when it's actually revealed is a complete surprise - all the 'clues' point elsewhere and that's actually annoying - I'd rather have worked it out - if you're going to set it up as some kind of guessing game, don't do that and then give the reader a completely out of the blue answer.
The one thing I did like was how it wove in the real characters of Pliny, Rectina and Pomponianus - the way this handles Pliny's death, is fairly accurate to the sources.Įverything else I hated - The ASINE riddle that kicked this off wasn't enough of a mystery and the answer failed to satisfy me.
Normally I love books set in the Ancient World, and I did enjoy The Thieves of Ostia, the first book in this series, but sadly this one left me cold.
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