emjay24 's review for:

The Gods of War by Conn Iggulden

4.0

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This is the 4th and last in the emperor series. I read the first one a few yrs ago, then the last 3 all recently. These books can get dense with details, especially of the battles and tournaments, but strangely, I was never bored. I think that the middle books were the best, and I really did like this last book too, but the whole time I was waiting for the ending everyone knows will come. It's pretty common knowledge how caesar died. Throughout the whole series, brutus was my favorite character, and sometimes I wish we could have focused on him a little more, but at the same time, I think that we did get to see into his head more than we did into ceasar's. julius just wasn’t a very likeable character, at least to me. He would not be someone I'd look up to, or want to be friends with. I am not even sure the people who called themselves his friends in these books were his friends at all. More like followers. Even so, I enjoyed every minute of this series and I will absolutely read the next series that Iggulden writes.