Narayoni reviewed Caesar by Colleen McCullough
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4 stars
The story opens five years after the end of the last book (Caesar's women), in Britannia. Caesar has spent all these years on campaign. Throughout the book, the narrative switches between events back in Rome and Caesar on campaign. In previous books of this series, I have always found accounts of military campaigns to be less interesting than those of events back in Rome. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find accounts of Caesar's campaigns to be even more riveting than the usual Roman politicking. Through the course of the narrative, the boni's actions against Caesar, back in Rome, become more and more ridiculous and nearly unconstitutional, pushing him towards taking increasingly autocratic and desperate measures. Thereafter, their total lack of preparedness and just their monumental stupidity is simply deplorable. Besides Cato, Bibulus, Ahenobarbus, Pompey and Brutus from the boni camp, Labienus and Mark Antony play secondary roles. We are …
The story opens five years after the end of the last book (Caesar's women), in Britannia. Caesar has spent all these years on campaign. Throughout the book, the narrative switches between events back in Rome and Caesar on campaign. In previous books of this series, I have always found accounts of military campaigns to be less interesting than those of events back in Rome. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find accounts of Caesar's campaigns to be even more riveting than the usual Roman politicking. Through the course of the narrative, the boni's actions against Caesar, back in Rome, become more and more ridiculous and nearly unconstitutional, pushing him towards taking increasingly autocratic and desperate measures. Thereafter, their total lack of preparedness and just their monumental stupidity is simply deplorable. Besides Cato, Bibulus, Ahenobarbus, Pompey and Brutus from the boni camp, Labienus and Mark Antony play secondary roles. We are also introduced to Cleopatra. The pacing never flags even for a bit. This book is now my new favourite in this series as of now. Now on to The October Horse!
