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Corvos Sangrentos (2014)

by Simon Scarrow(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Saída de Emergência

series

Eagle

review 1: This was a great step back into the best bits of the Simon Scarrow series. I love the big battles, scale and desperation rather than the cloak and dagger the series has more recently bent to. The best way to describe this is Gritty, there are some fantastic fights and battle scenes but the sections between battles have great depth. The conversations, preparation and the final struggles to stay alive feel very real. My only real gripes with book would be the beginning where there seemed to be a slow section leading up to what would become an inevitable battle. It adds background and historical setting so I can't complain, it just felt a little like stalling.
review 2: Cato and Macro return to their old haunts of Britannia, where they meet some old friends and "f... moreriends". So this is more of a fighting part of series, as opposed to being knee deep in political intrigue.Having said that, the book simply didn't struck a chord witm me. It's not a bad book by itself, but I think that by now the series is a bit played out. The constant encounters with Baudica obviously sets the ground for her later revolt, which will not go down well with Macro.But if nothing else Scarrow now freely admits that whole Britannia campaign is a analogy for Iraq war, together with Claudius' triumph/Mission Accomplished. Now, if he would admit that Druids are stand-ins for radical Muslim clergy......I'll likely read next book in the series when it comes out but I think the series passed it's peak and now more or less continues on inertia. less

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