A review by kyokroon
Catilina's Riddle by Steven Saylor

2.0

Not a bad book, but I had expected a little bit more from this.... I love this series precisely because it is a detective series in ancient Rome, which was sadly enough all absent from this book... It's situated mostly on a farm outside of Rome (with a lot of talk about farming and other agrarian stuff as a consequence), and there is barely any detectiving going on (the only ~~mystery were beheaded corpses but they of barely any importance to the story). I understand that there is a lot of debate about Catilina and that Saylor might not have wanted to make a decision in these matters, but it just made for a bit of a boring narrative... It just felt as if the main action and interesting stuff happened just around the corner (of better, in the city of Rome itself), while the narrative was stuck at some random person who was only tangently connected to the events...