Conn Iggulden
Hardcover | Pages: 409 pages Rating: 4.24 | 5726 Users | 272 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Blood of Gods: A Novel of Rome |
| ISBN: | 0007271174 (ISBN13: 9780007271177) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Emperor #5 |
| Characters: | Brutus, Marcus Agrippa, Marcus Antonius, Augustus, Gaius Maecenas |
| Setting: | Rome(Italy) |
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The fifth and final instalment of the Emperor series.Julius Caesar has been assassinated. A nation is in mourning. Revenge will be bloody.
Rome’s great hero Julius Caesar has been brutally murdered by his most trusted allies. While these self-appointed Liberatores seek refuge in the senate, they have underestimated one man: Caesar’s adopted son Octavian, a man whose name will echo through history as Augustus Caesar.
Uniting with his great rival Mark Antony, Octavian will stop at nothing to seek retribution from the traitors and avenge his father’s death. His greatest hatred is reserved for Brutus, Caesar’s childhood friend and greatest ally, now leader of the conspirators.
As the people take to the streets of Rome, the Liberatores must face their fate. Some flee the city; others will not escape mob justice. Not a single one will die a natural death. And the reckoning will come for Brutus on the sweeping battlefield at Philippi.
Mention Of Books The Blood of Gods (Emperor #5)
| Title | : | The Blood of Gods (Emperor #5) |
| Author | : | Conn Iggulden |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 409 pages |
| Published | : | May 23rd 2013 by Harper Collins (first published January 1st 2013) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Roman. War. Novels. Action |
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Ratings: 4.24 From 5726 Users | 272 ReviewsAssessment Of Books The Blood of Gods (Emperor #5)
A terrific read, full of action and true to the history. There is sadness in the horrible waste of life that war always is, in this case a civil war of Romans vs Romans, prompted by the murder of Julius Caesar. The end notes by the author reviewing the actual history were particularly illuminating.Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones .This was what I remembered from school textbooks of Shakespeare s description of Mark Anthony s Caesar homily.This book gave me the follow-up to that story. Very well researched and easily readable all of its nearly 500 pages . The building of the ships in the lake and the canal to pull them to sea is not a well-known fact and
"...walk as their heir to a god and the richest man in Rome. Walk as one who can call down the wrath of Mars with a snap of his fingers."Conn Iggulden's "The Blood of Gods" is everything that makes Iggulden so successful and such a fun read: characters that are solid, if not completely three dimensional; colorfully evocative prose that can't help but get any testosterone-laden blood pumping; and an undeniably compelling mix of history, action and drama."The Blood of Gods" is officially the fifth
I've been struggling to write this review - I just found it blah.Maybe it's my tendency to dislike Roman forum politics... it didn't manage to help me past my disinclination.Sadly it slid into a 2*.
Hugely enjoyable fictional recreation of the turbulent, traumatic period after Julius Caesar's assassination. Iggulden is particularly good at showing how all the main protagonists believed, honestly, that they were acting honourably and for the good of Rome. A peculiarity of my reading is the extraordinarily long memory shadow cast by watching 'I, Claudius' on TV in the seventies - it's all but impossible for me to read about Augustus (Octavian in his youth) without seeing Brian Blessed. In the
I received a free advance reader's edition of this book. It describes in vivid detail the aftermath of the murder of Julius Caesar. The book is full of political intrigue and military planning. The characters were compelling and the plot was very involving. It was a wonderful way in which to learn more about this period in history. The book was completely engaging, well written and conveyed a wonderful feeling of actually being present at the events depicted. That is exactly what I want from
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