The Slave King

Rating:
Summary: Not as good as "Gladiator School"
Review: I find myself in a tricky situation: an ancient historian who also finds that ancient cultures can be sexual turn-ons. In his previous book, "Gladiator School," Elliott benefited from little surviving knowledge about how exactly the gladiatorial centers functioned and as long as he kept the Roman as "masters" there was little issue with just having historical fun. However, how Roman conquered, what they did with those they conquered, and the more general ideas about sexuality in the Roman world make this second book less realistic to the trained eye. Now the sex is still pretty hot but I found myself saying "no, that's not right, that's not likely" so many times that I was distracted. Basically the plot falls into a sort of "Spartacus" model by the last fifth of the book though without a sad ending. So if you aren't as picky as me with "historical information" and you liked the roughness and grandeur of his first book, then you should like this one too.

Rating:
Summary: Not as good as "Gladiator School"
Review: I find myself in a tricky situation: an ancient historian who also finds that ancient cultures can be sexual turn-ons. In his previous book, "Gladiator School," Elliott benefited from little surviving knowledge about how exactly the gladiatorial centers functioned and as long as he kept the Roman as "masters" there was little issue with just having historical fun. However, how Roman conquered, what they did with those they conquered, and the more general ideas about sexuality in the Roman world make this second book less realistic to the trained eye. Now the sex is still pretty hot but I found myself saying "no, that's not right, that's not likely" so many times that I was distracted. Basically the plot falls into a sort of "Spartacus" model by the last fifth of the book though without a sad ending. So if you aren't as picky as me with "historical information" and you liked the roughness and grandeur of his first book, then you should like this one too.