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A review by kerveros
Inceptio by Alison Morton
5.0
Inceptio is an interesting book and a good opener to this series.
I was given the opportunity to read the second book in the series in return for a review and I said in that review I would read this when I could and I am very glad I did.
Karen/Carina is still an interesting heroine, her actions are logical and for the most part you can follow along with her train of thought. I thought the villain of the book was good - I wish we found his motivation out sooner but the explanation given was a good (if perhaps obvious) one and it goes some way to explaining his actions.
I didn't like Conrad in the second book and I don't much like him in this either but he serves his purpose and he isn't dislikable.
There are some time jumps in this that could perhaps be handled better but on the whole I found the writing style to be more easily understood than I did the second book - this suggests to me I just needed time to adapt to the authors style of writing.
I will say that the events in book two make a lot more sense having read this book which I am glad about. There are a couple of things that perhaps could have been tied up in this book (mainly US related things such as the ire she earned by striking a senators child(at least I think it was a senator)) but then the focus of the books is on Roma Nova not there so it is understandable why these 'kinda' threads were dropped.
All in all a highly enjoyable read.
I was given the opportunity to read the second book in the series in return for a review and I said in that review I would read this when I could and I am very glad I did.
Karen/Carina is still an interesting heroine, her actions are logical and for the most part you can follow along with her train of thought. I thought the villain of the book was good - I wish we found his motivation out sooner but the explanation given was a good (if perhaps obvious) one and it goes some way to explaining his actions.
I didn't like Conrad in the second book and I don't much like him in this either but he serves his purpose and he isn't dislikable.
There are some time jumps in this that could perhaps be handled better but on the whole I found the writing style to be more easily understood than I did the second book - this suggests to me I just needed time to adapt to the authors style of writing.
I will say that the events in book two make a lot more sense having read this book which I am glad about. There are a couple of things that perhaps could have been tied up in this book (mainly US related things such as the ire she earned by striking a senators child(at least I think it was a senator)) but then the focus of the books is on Roma Nova not there so it is understandable why these 'kinda' threads were dropped.
All in all a highly enjoyable read.