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A review by sabregirl
Empress of the Seven Hills by Kate Quinn
4.0
This book was so mesmerizing. I tend not to read much about Rome after Julius Caesar but this was a great book to start doing just that. So many great Caesars have already come and gone and this is almost like a lull period. A time when the current Caesar Trajan is trying to win back all of the glory that was lost. He does that, but upon his death in the last sixty pages he loses it all and then the whole book seems for naught. Which was very irritating. I was hoping for something epic to turn the events but alas, nothing happened.
The book is full of twists and turns, and affairs and betrayals which makes it an easy read. I did have trouble in the first 150 pages however, it just wasn't picking up liked I had hoped. But then the action picked up and I finished it in a few days. The main thing that bothered me is that through all of the switching point of view's only Vix had the first person perspective. Which is a little odd. A lot of his comments just had me rolling my eyes and telling him to hurry the hell up.
I hope there is a sequel to this book. Because I would really like Plotina and Hadrian to have gruesome deaths that would have me cheering. Both of them is kinda what makes this book hard to get through. Especially Plotina's obsession, and her constant comparison through herself, of the goddess Juno. I kinda just wanted to reach into the book and slap the living hell out of her. Just when we thought they both were going to be put in their place they end up winning. I hope it's a shallow win in the end.
The book is full of twists and turns, and affairs and betrayals which makes it an easy read. I did have trouble in the first 150 pages however, it just wasn't picking up liked I had hoped. But then the action picked up and I finished it in a few days. The main thing that bothered me is that through all of the switching point of view's only Vix had the first person perspective. Which is a little odd. A lot of his comments just had me rolling my eyes and telling him to hurry the hell up.
I hope there is a sequel to this book. Because I would really like Plotina and Hadrian to have gruesome deaths that would have me cheering. Both of them is kinda what makes this book hard to get through. Especially Plotina's obsession, and her constant comparison through herself, of the goddess Juno. I kinda just wanted to reach into the book and slap the living hell out of her. Just when we thought they both were going to be put in their place they end up winning. I hope it's a shallow win in the end.