The Legions of Fire (Hardcover) by Dr. David Drake

from Strider66

Pros: great characters, excellent world-building, interesting plot Cons: a few distracting word choices The magician Nemastes takes advantage of the superstitious senator Saxa and casts a spell in the man's house. That spell interrupts the poetry reading of Saxa's son Gaius Varus, and turns the y...

from montsamu

In brief: Drake creates a fantastic world of feel-it-in-your-bones magic, a great, great sphinx duel, and some quite interesting characters atop a richly layered, well-researched, might as well be speaking Latin it's so authentic ancient "not Rome". First in a series; fantastic cover artwork of T...

from Carl_Alves

The Legions of Fire is sort of an alternate history, fantasy novel that is set in ancient Rome except that magic and all sorts of monsters exist. The basic premise of the story is that there is a wizard who is an advisor to a senator in Carce, a Roman city, who is trying to bring about the ruin o...