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| Original Title: | The Forgotten Legion |
| ISBN: | 1848090080 (ISBN13: 9781848090088) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Forgotten Legion Chronicles #1 |
| Setting: | Rome(Italy) |
Ben Kane
Hardcover | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 4.01 | 5199 Users | 296 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Forgotten Legion (Forgotten Legion Chronicles #1) |
| Author | : | Ben Kane |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2008 by Preface Publishing (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
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An epic Roman novel which follows three men and one woman bound in servitude to the Republic. Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman. At thirteen-years-old, they are sold — Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome. Tarquinius is an Etruscan warrior and soothsayer, and an enemy of Rome, but doomed to fight for the Republic in the Forgotten Legion. Brennus is a Gaul; the Romans killed his entire family. He rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day — and mentor to the boy slave, Romulus, who dreams night and day of escape and revenge. The lives of the four are bound together into a marvellous story which begins in a Rome riven by corruption, violence and politics, and ends far away at the very border of the known world.Rating About Books The Forgotten Legion (Forgotten Legion Chronicles #1)
Ratings: 4.01 From 5199 Users | 296 ReviewsColumn About Books The Forgotten Legion (Forgotten Legion Chronicles #1)
I'm always picky when it comes to historical novel (I'm a major history geek), and this one didn't win me over immediately... but I ended up loving it! Its the story of an Etruscan seer and soldier named Tarquinius, a gladiator named Brennus and two twins Fabiola and Romulus, sold by their owner respectively to a brothel and gladiator school at the age of 13. Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius meet each other when the two former slaves decide to escape to Asia and join Crassus army in order to doBen Kane has told an interesting tale of 4 people that I found not only entertaining but informational as well. I had a little trouble with the idea of Romulus becoming so successful as a gladiator at the age of 14. Maybe a bit more believable if he had been 16-17. Fabiola was quite a believable character and became a stronger force as the story is woven. On to the sequel.
The Forgotten Legion tells the story about four people whose destinies are weaved together during the last gasps of the Roman Republic (ie before Julius Caesar became dictator).What marks this novel as different is that the main protagonists are either victims of Roman oppression (Brennus the Gaul, Tarquinius the Etruscan) or from the lowest class of Romans (the slave twins, Romulus and Fabiola). On the well-worn literary road that is the Roman Republic/Empire historical adventure novel, we
This is a complicated five star rating for this book. Ben tells a good story with a unique point of view not seen in many books set in this time period. The story has an obvious plot and the book is well organized. My main concern and issue about this book was that little effort was put into creating a connection between the characters and the reader, in my opinion this is a fatal mistake. If the reader does not care about the characters the reader wont care what happens to the characters and
Historical Fiction can be a fickle genre, at times. It can be hard to pin the genre down, and its popularity doesn't seem as widespread as most others (which is, I imagine, part of the reason historical fiction is tucked into the folds of the 'fiction & literature' section in most bookstores, rather than enjoying its own separate section). Yet, in broad terms I think of historical fiction writers much like I do science fiction writers; landing on a spectrum: with one end being professional
Reasons Why I DNF:1) The narrator, Michael Praed, needed some clamps on his sensitive areas and someone to flip the switch to give him a bit of energy. It was a dull reading, and his pace was slow, so it felt like things were never moving along. Yeah, yeah, I know. How could Robin of Sherwood & Prince Michael of Moldavia suck ass?!?! Well, there should be some kind of retribution for that stupid Dynasty wedding bomb cliffie.2) Actually things didn't move along. The story was choppy and very
I liked this. Ben Kane pays attention to the downtrodden and underprivileged in Rome, which I appreciate, and here he chooses an Etruscan and a Gaul among his mains. There were emotional moments in the arena when fellow victims of the Roman state cannot be true to one another, as they want to. My heart-strings were tugged. I appreciated the girl's gutsy determination when consigned to a brothel, and only found unbelievable that she decided to survive and thrive before she had gone through the
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