Simon Scarrow's sixth installment of his "Eagle" story follows Centurions Macro and Cato during a transitional phase in the threaded storyline of this Sand and Sandals series. In the last book, "The Eagle's Prey", our heroes were banished from the war front in Britannia, where the majority of the...
“The Eagle's Prey” is Simon Scarrow's solid fifth volume in his "Eagle" series focused on roman military adventures in the early first century, AD. This is not the best of Scarrow's series, but it's an entertaining story of well-written action sequences held together by a reasonably solid, if not...
What strikes me most about this book, and to a certain extent the previous book in the series too, is just how different it is to the author's non-Roman period fiction.For someone who is routinely trotted out as one of the best authors of Roman fiction, it surprises me just how bland and un-engag...
Finally a book in the Eagle series that didn't feel like a huge waste of time reading.It has taken this far in to make me actually enjoy (slightly too strong a word) one and if I'm honest, if I hadn't been over-eager and bought all the books before having read any, I probably wouldn't have bother...
"Simon Scarrow's Pulp Fiction-esque Roman adventure is a win for me and nil for the bores"Simon Scarrow use to be on the Goodreads author, but apparently after some embarrassing comments by a well known member he removed his account. After confirming this with the author, it rather made me think,...
The book The Generals by Simon Scarrow is an amazing non-fiction story about two brave, ambitious and fearless leaders; Napoleon and Wellington. This is the second book in the Revolution series and comes after young bloods.My favorite part in the book is Napoleon's campaign in Italy and how he wa...