A review by jacquilogan
Pompeii by Robert Harris

4.0

Pompeii by Robert Harris audiobook narrated by Steven Pacey, published by Random House.  Listened using Listening Books a charity providing audiobooks for people who finding reading physical books more difficult via the Libby App 4 stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟

My second book by this author and again I enjoyed the story telling.  Set in Pompeii in 79AD and I won’t give giving away any major plots by saying it covers the week leading up to the eruption of Mt Vesuvius destroying the town of Pompeii and neighbouring towns/villages.  The story is told though the eyes of four people one a young engineer come to fix the aqueduct the grand Aqua Augusta which has stopped flowing, a corrupt millionaire and his adolescent daughter who is being forced into a marriage and a elderly scientist.

The tension builds slowly, you know something is going to happen, you even know what is going to happen, but what you don’t know, is exactly what is going to happen to these four characters.

I found it a very good story and even learnt one or two things.