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There's nothing particularly "wrong" with this novel. The author has created an interesting magic system and her "Rome" and "Gaul" (or "Hispania") are fairly well actualized (although her Gauls could do with some work).

Yet.....

Nothing seems to be happening. The two protagonists are mooning over each other and the "Gauls" are in revolt... but I can't really find it in myself to care.

This is a hard slog....

Very few Roman themed fantasies work for me.. and it isn’t just the difficulty with keeping the names straight.

So far this may very well be an exception.

Very few Roman themed fantasies work for me.. and it isn’t just the difficulty with keeping the names straight.

So far this may very well be an exception.

As a Canadian, I get annoyed when SciFi writers start with the premise that Canada at some point joined the US. Mr. Chadwick has his protagonists be citizens of the United States of North America (including a character from the slums of Ottawa).

Having said that, so far its not a bad read.

"It hardly seems right that an intelligence officer should spend his time shopping at IKEA..."