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2.0
Loved some of the characters - Beric and Argas. It felt like they were struggling with understanding what was right and doing the right thing, and failing miserably half the time.
I found the swiftly changing POVs a bit chaotic and the first 140 pages which set out to introduce each of the characters felt like many short stories that didn’t necessarily fit well in the overall structure of the novel. A bit repetitive in displaying the characters’ beliefs and mostly quick acceptance of their self-sacrifice which made them almost stereotypes and not fleshed out characters.
I enjoyed how you can draw a parallelism between Rome, how modern it was and how convenient for its citizens to dismiss the use of slaves as a necessary way to progress, and our modern world, where privileged citizens live off underdeveloped countries but don’t change their behaviour out of fear of having to give up their comfortable lifestyle.
I found the swiftly changing POVs a bit chaotic and the first 140 pages which set out to introduce each of the characters felt like many short stories that didn’t necessarily fit well in the overall structure of the novel. A bit repetitive in displaying the characters’ beliefs and mostly quick acceptance of their self-sacrifice which made them almost stereotypes and not fleshed out characters.
I enjoyed how you can draw a parallelism between Rome, how modern it was and how convenient for its citizens to dismiss the use of slaves as a necessary way to progress, and our modern world, where privileged citizens live off underdeveloped countries but don’t change their behaviour out of fear of having to give up their comfortable lifestyle.
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