Master and God Lib/E: A Novel of the Roman Empire (Audiobook)

from janerawoof

This was a reread in Sept. 2016--just as fantastic the second time as the first reading. This novel told of the on-again/off-again friendship then love between Lucilla, a hairdresser to the Flavians and Roman nobility, and a Pretorian, Gaius Vinius Clodianus, who had been badly injured, disfigure...

from jmulick

I listened to this book as an Audible.com audiobook on my iPod Touch. I agree with thereviewer who indicated it had an unusual style described as "dry history," which I assumed referred to it having been long on narrative and short on dialogue. It took some getting used to. Eventually I became ve...

from quiBee

Lindsey Davis is one of my favourite authors because of her Falco series, set at the time of Vespasian. Most of the books in this series are very well written and very enjoyable. This is a standalone book set at the time of the emperor Domitian.I did not enjoy this book because, as a novel, it di...

from Storeetllr

Lindsey Davis is one of my favorite authors, but this disappointing historical novel read more like dry history, the characters were flat, it jumped from Domitian's head to Lucilla's to Clodianus's to a fly's (I kid you not) and didn't make me care much for any of the characters, though I did lik...

from janerawoof

This was a reread in Sept. 2016--just as fantastic the second time as the first reading. This novel told of the on-again/off-again friendship then love between Lucilla, a hairdresser to the Flavians and Roman nobility, and a Pretorian, Gaius Vinius Clodianus, who had been badly injured, disfigure...