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The genesis story of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, although I feel a more apt title would've been "Agrippina" as this first installment in the trilogy is mostly about his mother, her first two marriages, and her scheming to stay alive and prosper in a world of powerful, unspeakably violent men.

This is the first book by Conn Iggulden I have read and I devoured it. The prose was...inelegant...which is usually a miss for me, but somehow it really worked here. I can only speculate that the expert pacing just swept me away and caused me to overlook that, and/or that this is a story of absolute savagery that doesn't require flowery language.