by Kate Quinn
Kate Quinn has rapidly risen among the ranks of my favorite writers. I found this book to be a little bit of a let down but still quite engaging (if that makes sense).My biggest problem was one word. Hump. I almost started counting the number of times that word was used. Please, just call it sex. I ...
Okay, Ms. Quinn, here's the deal: I really like your books, but some basic research would go a long way to improving them. Vocabulary, basic knowledge of how a vomitorium works.... these things are important if you want to write a solid historical fiction novel set in ancient Rome. Just a note. ...
This book didn't grab me immediately like Mistress of Rome. When it finally picked up a bit, I still felt a real disconnect w all the characters. Actually, I don't think I felt a thing for any of them throughout the book. Even though I didn't adore this, I will still read more from this author.
It with a heavy heart that I give Daughters of Rome 3 stars. I wanted to love this book, to devour every word but it left me wanting more. When I first read Mistress of Rome last year I fell head over heals for the story, setting and the moving characters. So much of that was missing in Daughters ...
A tumultuous year in Rome as seen through the eyes of four patrician women. As others have noted at first I had a problem with the shifting POV and telling the characters apart. I just went with it and as I got to know them better that smoothed out and I quickly and eagerly raced through the middl...
3.5 starsI enjoyed Daughters of Rome, but certainly not nearly as much as Mistress of Rome. Daughters of Rome, the prequel to Mistress of Rome, does fill you in on the background of Domitian's wife in Mistress. Some of the comments the Empress makes in Mistress are more clear now that we have her ba...
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This was a pretty good book. I love how the characters evolved with the story.
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