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A review by themockingbird
Deadly Election by Lindsey Davis
3.0
Finishing this novel makes only the second Lindsey Davis book I've ever read, the first being The Silver Pigs, the first Falco novel. In general I felt like I was missing a lot of context, which is probably true. I don't know how Falco came to adopt Albia, except for the snippets of context that are provided through the course of the novel. Davis provides a fair amount of context throughout, relating brief histories of characters I would have met in other books. At time I found this clunky, but since it was so helpful to me, I tried to ignore the occasional awkwardness of these additions.
As with The Silver Pigs, what I enjoyed most about this novel was seeing the world of Rome on the page. I'm an amateur Classicist (having a major in Classics and a chunk of years of Latin under my belt), and I love Rome. I love the vivid details, the scene-setting, the food. It brings this world, an ancient and foreign one, to immediate and familiar life. It's comforting.
I don't have much more to say since I read this book six months before finally writing out this review.
As with The Silver Pigs, what I enjoyed most about this novel was seeing the world of Rome on the page. I'm an amateur Classicist (having a major in Classics and a chunk of years of Latin under my belt), and I love Rome. I love the vivid details, the scene-setting, the food. It brings this world, an ancient and foreign one, to immediate and familiar life. It's comforting.
I don't have much more to say since I read this book six months before finally writing out this review.