Hello and welcome to another exciting Simon Scarrow review, this time the second legion has got themeselves into a hostage situation , its up to the old duo of Cato and Macro to help the legion save their leaders wife and child. Firstly , I would suggest reading the previous books in order to learn about the characters relationships and previous battles which are reffered to. This book keeps to the same writing style as the previous creations and brings something slightly to different to the mainly battle orientated line before. The wife and children of general plautius and have been taken by the british druids and the legion has been given a week to either ...  Read the complete review

I am an avid reader and also an avid worrier. I guestimated once that I read on average 100 books a year; I then multiplied this by the number of years I have left on this Earth - hopefully 50 at least! Therefore, how many books have I got left to read? Only 5000! I have around 500 books in my 'to be read pile' already - 10% of my remaining life total. The fact that I was down to 5000 books was not only depressing, but also made me reflect on what I should bother to read. If an author cannot grip me within 50 pages I should move on before it's too late. Sometimes this can be too premature as series of novels in particular can take a few novels to mature. I had ...  Read the complete review