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A review by kyokroon
Rubicon by Steven Saylor
2.0
2.5 / 5 stars
Mehh.. This book turned out to be a disappointment to me.
I really love the Roma Sub Rosa series, because I love the Antiquity and detectives. Just like the other books, this book begins with a mysterious murder and Gordianus tasked with solving it.
Throughout this whole book there seemed to be more political stuff going on than actual detective work. While that's great if it's encompassed in the mystery (see A Murder on the Appian Way for instance), it felt really disconnected here. The murder and the political turmoil that's happening seem not really woven together. Don't get me wrong: Roman politics interest me greatly, but when I want to read a mysterious murder mystery, I want a book to be about the murder and the act of solving it, not the surrounding political problems that may (slightly) play into it.
So, not my favourite book of the series, but I was still planning to give it 3 or 3.5 stars. That definitely changed during the so-called "plot-twist"
this was me:
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All with all, definitely not my favourite book in the series (probably even the least favourite).
Happy reading!
Mehh.. This book turned out to be a disappointment to me.
I really love the Roma Sub Rosa series, because I love the Antiquity and detectives. Just like the other books, this book begins with a mysterious murder and Gordianus tasked with solving it.
Throughout this whole book there seemed to be more political stuff going on than actual detective work. While that's great if it's encompassed in the mystery (see A Murder on the Appian Way for instance), it felt really disconnected here. The murder and the political turmoil that's happening seem not really woven together. Don't get me wrong: Roman politics interest me greatly, but when I want to read a mysterious murder mystery, I want a book to be about the murder and the act of solving it, not the surrounding political problems that may (slightly) play into it.
So, not my favourite book of the series, but I was still planning to give it 3 or 3.5 stars. That definitely changed during the so-called "plot-twist"
this was me:
Spoiler
the idea that Gordianus had done it himself and that he was an unreliable narrator was so incredibly far-fetched to me; it just seemed like Saylor had to find a way to encompass mystery in another book he'd already written about the beginning of Rome's civil warAll with all, definitely not my favourite book in the series (probably even the least favourite).
Happy reading!