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The Road To Rome (2010)

by Ben Kane(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1848090145 (ISBN13: 9781848090149)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Preface Publishing

series

Forgotten Legion Chronicles

review 1: In the final volume of the Forgotten Legion Chronicles, The Road to Rome the story reaches its conclusion and finds Romulus eventually returning to the city he fled ten years before, when he was wrongly blaimed for the death of a noble. After being captured and made to fight in a foreign army, escaping and fighting for Caesars legions, he returns home in search of his sister and to seek revenge on the man that sold him and his family into slavery.With a back drop to reality Romulus marches through history with his two friends whilst his sister plots revenge on the man she believed raped her mother in Rome and climbs the social ladder. Along the way he losses friends and finds more and is re-aquainted with some familiar faces. Chief amongst those is Tarquinius the soothsaye... morer who's visions have been helping along the way, as well as his double headed axe.Ben Kane has without doubt managed to create a world that is easily imaginable to the reader and characters that most people will be able to relate to in one way or another. Some you would like and some you would hate but all are as real as the people around you in reality. As with lots of historical authors writing novels, he mirrors his characters with history as they walk their journey through the written page.I don't want to say too much about the stories intricate details because some of you won't have read it/them and its soon to be released in the USA and I don't want to ruin it for you. All I will say that as a fan of Simon Scarrow, Anthony Riches, Douglas Jackson, Conn Iggulden and others such as Lindsey Davis, Ruth Downie and Valerio Massimo Manfredi, I can highly recommend Ben Kanes books.For one reason or another I bought all the books when they were released and have only in the last few weeks got round to reading them. I can honestly say I've thoroughly enjoyed the journey with Romulus and company and look forward to further releases by Ben Kane and who knows, journeying once again with Romulus in the future and even maybe with someone who was last seen fighting an elephant!
review 2: A fine ending to the Forgotten Legion series. I thought book II was not the same quality as the opening novel and had some reservations regarding The Road to Rome. However, Ben Kane returns to form and nails it.A tragic ending, but you still leave with at least one hero, Romulus, shining bright. I always prefer when an author wraps up a story, leaving very few unanswered question. Especially after investing time in a heavy trilogy. Kane's ending is great. Although he does leave open the door for a 4th book... the search for Brennus. less

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