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Title: Not much of interest.
Review: I read this in part because of the favorable reviews and after finishing the book I have to wonder what the favorable reviewers read. The book is composed of two or three barely related stories. The first is about a young roman water way specialist as he works to restore water to a town. The second and least important story is how the young engineer developes affection toward the daughter of a villain, and the third involves the destruction of Pompeii as a result of Mt Vesuvius's eruption.None of the stories was especially engaging and I could have set the book aside at any time as the story and it's ending were completely predictable.
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