Title: Good research with needless repetition!
Review: I bought this book for my kindle because I love stories set in the 1st Century AD. The writer showed promise with her research but so much of it was repeated throughout the book and on my kindle, sometimes I thought I was reading the same chapter or page! I don't know how many times the main character repeatedly described her relationship with Demetres, or the fact that Roman's left food scrapes on the floor after dinner, or what knucklebones were, or how unattractive she was, or (blah blah blah), or how she loved teaching stories to Tullia--not to mention the telling of the stories themselves! I wanted to scream in some parts: "OKAY, we got it already!"This story was under 300 pages but could have been condensed to 150 pages with a good editor. Good first book and the writer is a good story teller overall.
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