Empress of Rome Mistress of Rome, Book 1, (Paperback)

from lazybee

Mistress of Rome is set in first century Rome, and tells the stories of a slave girl named Thea, her owner Lepida, Lepida's husband Marcus, and a gladiator named Arius, who get caught up in imperial politics. The story is really engaging, and fans of historical fiction will definitely enjoy this.

from Olivermagnus

Taking place over a fourteen-year period, Mistress of Rome follows the story of Thea, a 14 year old Judean slave when we first meet her. She is working as a maid to Lady Lepida Pollia, a spoiled and selfish aristocrat about the same age. We also meet another slave, Arius, who has been selected to...

from avidreaderlisa

I really did like the story in the Mistress of Rome, yet some of the writing was a bit confusing. She would change the time of the action from one sentence to the next, so it was hard to tell if what you were reading was happening now, or it happened in the past. If you can get past this, there a...

from MarysGirl

I found this to be a fast-paced book with great characters. It captured me immediately with the scene of a young woman cutting herself. Brilliant! Quinn definitely subscribes to the "torture your characters" school of writing. All the sympathetic characters suffer emotional and physical upheaval ...

from CinderH

This book felt a little bit too long to me. I felt the story was a good one. A subject that I've not read much about before so it was all new and shiny. I liked that the author included the lives of many people that were in different classes--the gladiator, the slave, the elite and socialite of t...