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** spoiler alert ** I really liked the book. I liked the fact that both Minutus and his father are no heroes but normal people like me and you. They make mistakes. They hate to fight. They do not want to accept responsibility for their lives and for their deeds. On top of that, Minutus is utterly naive and trusting.

On the other hand, they briliantly handle tasks given to them by others and they are quite adept in accumulating riches.

However, there is one thing which made me stop reading any further. The moment when he is told by Claudia that his wife Flavia Sabina was cheating on him with a slave. Or probably with all of them. The whole Rome knows about it, the kid has dark skin and Minutus still thinks it is his child.

This is beyond dumb. Of course this is not the only dumb thing he does or did but this is the point when his honor is at stake and instead of killing the slave sending his slutty wife to faraway place, as soon as he gets threatened, he immediatelly backs out like a rabbit. That’s simply beoynd my comprehension. I accept he is a coward too but there should a point where even he needs to step up and defend himself.