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The Prophet From Ephesus (2009)

by Caroline Lawrence(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1842551914 (ISBN13: 9781842551912)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Orion Children's Books

series

The Roman Mysteries

review 1: This was a good book. I liked how the author brought back characters, and really expressed how the characters felt. I also like the unfixed setting, and the traveling. The traveling gives an opportunity for the author to describe a lot, something she does well. I wish the book was not so jumpy, and abrupt ending. I also like how each character has their own goal and story, that ends up conflicting. I am really excited for the final book of the series.
review 2: This book is about four teenage friends who live in ancient Rome. The four friends were tasked in the previous books with a mission from the Emperor to retrieve his stolen precious jewels. The team successfully found the jewels and returned them to the Emperor’s aid completing their mission. However, u... morenknown to the four friends the Emperor’s aid kept the jewels for himself and told the Emperor that they had not be returned and had been stolen once again by the young friends. This now left them as outlaws in Rome and they will never be allowed to return home without being arrested. This book within the series finds the four friends travelling through the country side meeting healers and prophets. They hear news that more children in their home town are being kidnapped to be sold as slaves. The four vow to rescue the kidnapped children and bring them home, which they successfully achieve. They are rewarded with a villa from a rich villain who has now found religion and repented his sins. They are allowed to live in the villa as long as it is used as a safe house to help kidnapped children. The book gives a lot of detail about Rome and its surrounding provinces and is heavily steeped in Christian religion. There is a glossary of words at the back of the book to explain the historical terms which I found very useful.I didn’t realise that this book was part of a series and I found it difficult to follow the story as I started half way through the series and did not know what had happened previously. less

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