Title: A fun read, but not historical fiction
Review: This should definitely be classified under alternative historical fiction--not regular historical fiction.It's a fun read, but there's very little history involved here. If you want to learn about the history of Rome's big players, this is a very poor choice. If you already know about the history of Rome and want to read a generally fictionalized alternative universe about its main players around the time of Caesar, then this may be fine for you.I realize that all novelists, even those of historical fiction, are free to embellish for the purposes of creating a good story, and that it's not a history book per se, but this went too far over the line for my expectations.I recommend the Colleen McCullough series on Rome as well as Robert Harris' novel of the same era, Imperium. I also liked the biography, Augustus, by Anthony Everitt.
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