A review by sbones
Pompeii by Robert Harris

4.0

This book is set on the days leading up to and the days of the eruption of Vesuvius and what it might have been like to live through it at Pompeii. It’s told from the viewpoints of the young water engineer, a teenage girl, Pliny the scientist and a corrupt millionaire who was once a slave. The level of details and vivid descriptions of the surroundings before and after the eruption is breathtaking. You feel that you are there amongst the falling pumice stone, the heat of the molten and the fires and it makes you realise how terrifying it must have been to be living through it at a time when there wasn’t much known about eruptions and the destructions they would cause. Another page turning book through a moment in history by this author. Can’t wait to go along on another time travelling ride with the next book of his.