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phil_mann 's review for:
The Gates of Rome
by Conn Iggulden
Entertaining. The prose is functional. Speaking about the complete series, I did appreciate the overall arc of the story and how it explained Brutus's motivation and Julius's personality, but I do wish there were fewer liberties taken with the known history. There were some glaring anachronisms- in particular there's a mention of Roman soldiers eating corn mush, which really shook my confidence in the author's historicity. This slip up was in the first novel of the series, and I read the remainder of the series with the feeling of "yeah but, ..." never really daring to believe anything I was reading, because if you can put corn in Europe 50 BC, what other things might you mix up?