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Title: Nice premise, needs editing
Review: Always an interesting idea with fiction - the alternative history setting. McDougall initially does well easing the reader into the new Rome milieu with an interesting background and enough details to pique the interest of the reader. However once the chase begins - which dominates the book, the plot and writing falters, and the nature of the characters comes through as thin and in need of firmer writing. A good editor would have made this a shorter book, with a stronger cast and the result would have been a better book, and ultimately created a greater bond of sympathy between the reader and the characters. The final pages set up the next in the series and are quite disappointing, and so I won't read the sequels, even though the premise is one I find particularly interesting
