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Two Women

Alberto Moravia

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FIRST PUBLISHED in English in 1958, Two Women is a compassionate yet forthright narrative of simple...

The Path of Redemption

Tom Haward

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With Grand Protector Faust missing and Caesar dead, Senator Frigus is trying to hold the fraying...

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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) rated The Flow of History in Tabletop Games

Apr 15, 2018

The Flow of History

2016 | Card Game, Civilization

8.3

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Good glory to Rome style art.

Have to play it once thru to understand what you are doing. (0 more)

Flow of history has a lot to love.

Glory to Rome is out of print. And it’s rare to find a copy for sale for less that $200. Which is a lot for a small card game. This one searches the itch but is also different enough to be its own thing. On first play it feels less swingy than GTR. I really started to see how it worked about 1/2 way through. And wished I’d done things very differently. My friend backed it on Kickstarter and now I’m wishing I had too. This needs multiple plays to be sure I love it. But I go to game night to try new things and this delivered. Kudos to the designers for trying to fill a void while still making a new game.

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David McK (3600 KP) rated The Road to Rome: (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 3) in Books

Jan 30, 2019

Final part in Ben Kane's Forgotten Legion trilogy, this follows the same format as the previous two books ('The Forgotten Legion' and 'The Silver Eagle') in following it's protaganist section about, ending each section on a cliffhanger.

Whereas before this could be slightly jarring (moving from Rome to, eg, Alexandria, and then back to Rome), it works slightly better in this novvel as some of the characters are working their way back to the seat of the Roman Republic eventually taking it section about within the environs of the city.

As the series has been working up to, the novel also culminates in the fateful Ides of March, with the infamous assissination of Julius Caesar in the forum by a disgruntled group of nobles.

The series as whole was readable enough, and while I may read a few more by this author, I doubt I'll be going out of my way to look for them.

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The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

Robert A. Kaster

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To walk on remnants of the storied Appian Way today, from Rome to the heel of Italy, is to walk in...

Stealing God

James Green

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Jimmy Costello, hard-man and bad catholic is back and he's studying to be a priest. The same corrupt...

Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Rule (Marked Men, #1) in Books

Jan 7, 2021

3.5 stars.

I liked this, though I thought it was a little too long.

Rule was cool, he's a tattooed, pierced bad boy who slept around with anyone who was up for it at the start and in a way, I didn't like it. Then we met Shaw and I liked her influence on him. They may be polar opposites but they compliment each other quite nicely.

All the main characters were pretty amazing; Nash, Rome, Jet, Ayden, Cora, Rowdy...if I missed anyone I'm sorry! They were a fun bunch and I liked their interaction, teasing and flirting with each other.

I'm kinda sad that I missed "meeting" Remy, he seemed like he was a great person; friend and brother, and I understand why he didn't tell anyone his secret, though I kinda figured it out by about half way through.

A nice start to the series and I look forward to reading Jet, Rome and Nash's stories too.