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Centurion
"Can I be yours?"
Centurion Gaius Priscus has had his fill of war and death but knows no other life. When he meets the captive Salicar's gaze after battle, months of stringent self-denial catch up to him in a blazing rush of need.
Salicar is a healer, an educated man unused to battle but with his own experience of death. He should prefer death to captivity, but cannot find the courage to make it happen.
Will the hardened warrior, tired of death and destruction, deny his captive's plea?
Note: The author on the cover is called LB in the book is the full name Lee Brazil.
Centurion Gaius Priscus has had his fill of war and death but knows no other life. When he meets the captive Salicar's gaze after battle, months of stringent self-denial catch up to him in a blazing rush of need.
Salicar is a healer, an educated man unused to battle but with his own experience of death. He should prefer death to captivity, but cannot find the courage to make it happen.
Will the hardened warrior, tired of death and destruction, deny his captive's plea?
Note: The author on the cover is called LB in the book is the full name Lee Brazil.
37 pages, ebook
First published September 27, 2013
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
April 13, 2020
GOOD IDEA GONE TO WASTE...
Whenever I read a "miniature" historical fiction I ask myself the same question: Why does it have to be so short? This is not the first Ancient-Rome historical fiction that leaves me wishing for more. I know that it has sequels but they are as short as this one...
Centurion, the title reminds me of another book written by Simon Scarrow... but both are totally different, comparing them would equal comparing a gem and a stone. I honestly don't have anything to say about this 'mini" book. I'd have rated it 2 stars but I didn't like the physical depictions of the characters and the pointless sex.. In almost every gay-themed historical fiction set in the Roman Empire, the Roman has to be tall, dark and brown-eyed whereas the slave is represented as slender, thin, blonde and blue-eyed. I know that authors just try to stick to a realistic representation of the environment and the Roman characters, but, some change doesn't hurt.
As for the idea of a Greek healer being captured by a Roman century and sold in a slave market to a wealthy Roman household/master is rather appealing. What would happen to him? Would he practice his art? Would he be trusted? Would he regain his freedom someday? The possibilities of development of an intrigue are exponential.. but this author chose not to exploit it further... not when no book exceeds 25 pages. Too bad.
So, 1 star.
Whenever I read a "miniature" historical fiction I ask myself the same question: Why does it have to be so short? This is not the first Ancient-Rome historical fiction that leaves me wishing for more. I know that it has sequels but they are as short as this one...
Centurion, the title reminds me of another book written by Simon Scarrow... but both are totally different, comparing them would equal comparing a gem and a stone. I honestly don't have anything to say about this 'mini" book. I'd have rated it 2 stars but I didn't like the physical depictions of the characters and the pointless sex.. In almost every gay-themed historical fiction set in the Roman Empire, the Roman has to be tall, dark and brown-eyed whereas the slave is represented as slender, thin, blonde and blue-eyed. I know that authors just try to stick to a realistic representation of the environment and the Roman characters, but, some change doesn't hurt.
As for the idea of a Greek healer being captured by a Roman century and sold in a slave market to a wealthy Roman household/master is rather appealing. What would happen to him? Would he practice his art? Would he be trusted? Would he regain his freedom someday? The possibilities of development of an intrigue are exponential.. but this author chose not to exploit it further... not when no book exceeds 25 pages. Too bad.
So, 1 star.
August 28, 2020
Too short and limited in scope to really rate any higher.
February 9, 2017
First off, this is book one. Book 2 is out but very pricey. Next, there really wasn't much of a story to this book. I mean I know it wasn't suppose to be too long but damn so not want I thought. Too much history and not a lot of m/m in the book. Yea, it was half but it was very dull. If you paid anything for this book, you paid too much. IF I get the second book, I pray that is better.
May 21, 2016
I love historical settings. This story could have earned 3+ stars but the problem is, it is not a complete story. It's more like the first three chapters of a novel. I should give it one star but, see above, I love historical...
October 9, 2014
Really it needs a sequel. As it's seems to be incomplete but the rating might rise if the sequel was making real.
April 2, 2014
Very short read. I'm anxious to see what happens in the second read "Slave." I like the cover very much....very eye catching.
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