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A review by escan
The Venus Throw by Steven Saylor
5.0
There’s a lot to love about this, but it’s late on a (virtual) school night, so I’ll just comment that I very much appreciated the way the novel handled the themes of violence, particularly sexual violence, against women. It’s something that connects both Clodia, a wealthy Roman patrician woman, and Bethesda, an Egyptian former slave, as well as the young slave girl Zotica I’ll spoiler mark this just to be safe, but felt as relevant to our society today as to that of Gordianus and his family. Also, very very major spoiler but