Nero by Conn Iggulden
My score: 4 of 5 stars
Nero is e book one of many Nero Trilogy set in Historic Rome.
This e book covers the early years of the boy who will in the future grow to be the notorious emperor. When the story begins, we’re launched to his mother and father. His father is an ex-chariot racer, who now spends a lot of his time drunk, whereas his mom, Agrippina, is a descendant of the Emperor Augustus.
Rome is a politically harmful place, significantly when the ailing Tiberius returns from Capri to wash Rome of usurpers. He brings with him Agrippina’s brother, the subsequent inheritor to the imperial throne. It’s to her brother that Agrippina turns when she wants a favour, nevertheless it turns into a expensive deed in occasions of terror.
Upon the demise of Agrippina’s brother, her uncle turns into the subsequent emperor. With ideas of her personal son and his future, she is decided to maintain near her uncle, even travelling with him on his marketing campaign in Britannia.
This was begin to the sequence. The violence and back-stabbing of the period is anticipated, however it’s balanced with different components of the Roman years. I significantly loved the latter a part of the e book with the journey to Gaul and the invasion of Britannia.
The writer’s notes behind the e book had been additionally very useful, explaining the liberties taken with the altering of names, to assist the reader the place real-life characters shared comparable or the identical names.
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Guide description:
TYRANTS AREN’T BORN. THEY’RE RAISED.
ANCIENT ROME, AD 37
It begins with a person’s hand curled round one other’s throat.
Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor.
Then his complete household.
Subsequent all his pals. It’s as if he by no means existed.
THIS IS ROMAN JUSTICE.
Into this fevered discussion board, a toddler is born.
His mom is Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. However their imperial blood isn’t any safety. The nearer you’re to the guts of the empire, the nearer you’re to energy, intrigue, and hazard.
She faces troopers, senators, rivals, silver-tongued pretenders, every vying for place. One mistake dangers exile, incarceration, execution. Or, worst of all, the lack of her toddler son.
For Agrippina is aware of that chance waits, even in your darkest moments. Her son is all the things. She will be able to make this boy, form him into Rome itself – the one all should kneel earlier than.
BUT FIRST, THEY MUST SURVIVE . . .
