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| Sunday, 9 September 2007 |
| Begun: Rome Burning (Romanitas 2) |
The second volume of Sophia McDougall's "Roman Empire in the present day" trilogy turned up yesterday. It's an indication of just how much I liked that premise, that I would buy the second volume even when the first was, frankly, rubbish. In fact, I think I'll just agree with the Amazon reviewer who titled his post "Romanitarse". I managed about the first thirty pages before I fell asleep: she does seem to have almost learned to string a sentence together (or perhaps I remembered her as worse than she really is), but gods help us with the plot. There's about to be a world war between the Roman and Nionian (Japanese) empires, it should be full of tension and bravado and heroism... and instead she makes the whole thing read like the minutes of some committee meeting, with people I have to look up in the dramatis personae every other sentence giving reports to the Emperor. How does this crap get published?
Could get better but I have a horrible feeling it's going to get worse. |
| posted @ 18:45 |
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