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A review by books_ergo_sum
The Tribune Temptation by Jenna Bigelow
emotional
5.0
Spectacular. Give me 14 of them right now.
A historical romance set in Rome? Yay!!
✨ This Roman setting? Excellent. This was not a contemporary romance in a toga—we *were* in Rome.
✨ This marriage of convenience? Excellent. I’m a simple girl. I just want a marriage of convenience where they agree to keep it platonic… but they’re sweating at how much they want to bang each other.
✨ These characters? Literal perfection. I can’t decide what I liked the most: that our heroine had some flaws, how unexpectedly nuanced her feelings about children were, how complicatedly they experienced Roman class distinctions, how even our side character friends were flawed and real… Actually, this is what I liked the most: that our hero was a progressive and ambitious Freedman (emancipated Roman slave) but he wasn’t some cartoonish Robin Hood figure—“he wanted to be seen as respectable, genteel” and we had lots of internalized BS to deal with (for him and for her).
This series is about to become my whole personality.
A historical romance set in Rome? Yay!!
✨ This Roman setting? Excellent. This was not a contemporary romance in a toga—we *were* in Rome.
✨ This marriage of convenience? Excellent. I’m a simple girl. I just want a marriage of convenience where they agree to keep it platonic… but they’re sweating at how much they want to bang each other.
✨ These characters? Literal perfection. I can’t decide what I liked the most: that our heroine had some flaws, how unexpectedly nuanced her feelings about children were, how complicatedly they experienced Roman class distinctions, how even our side character friends were flawed and real… Actually, this is what I liked the most: that our hero was a progressive and ambitious Freedman (emancipated Roman slave) but he wasn’t some cartoonish Robin Hood figure—“he wanted to be seen as respectable, genteel” and we had lots of internalized BS to deal with (for him and for her).
This series is about to become my whole personality.