emjay24 's review for:

The Wedding Shroud - A Tale of Ancient Rome by Elisabeth Storrs

4.0

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I love how kindles can make a chunky, long historical fiction book manageable. yesterday i took the long flight home from spain to san francisco alone, and this book kept me company. it just drew me in right from the start. i loved how descriptive it was, so much detail...you can tell that she really spent a ton of time doing her historical research. i've seen things in museums about the etruscans, studied them a teency bit in college, but they were never really brought to life the way they were in this book. i also loved learning more about earlier rome. rome is usually characterized in later times, i almost forget its austere beginnings. you can really see how it changed later and incorporated a lot of the things that it didn't originally believe in, from other cultures. i would love to have lived in the etruscan world. it sounds beautiful, vibrant and fun. i was a little shocked at how many drugs they used to take, you usually think of that as more of a modern thing, but they were pretty much as bad as we are now. i wasn't bored for hours of reading, even though the main character was a bit annoying and she and her husband slightly stereotype ish. i can't wait to read the sequel...i almost went and bought it today to read but only the fact that i have a ton of other books here waiting already to read stopped me. i'm going back to it as soon as i can, though!!