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This is really not technically about Nero. It is about his famous nasty relatives that come before him. As a matter of fact, Nero doesn’t even appear until near the final pages of the book, when he is born. Strange that Iggulden named the book Nero, unless he meant it to be a background for the next two books that will actually be about him. I am really looking forward to the next two books and will gobble them up when they finally get written.

This author is brilliant at making history come alive. Nero is exciting from the first page to the last. He writes great dialog making the characters realistic and fascinating. Although the author does a tremendous amount of research, he tries to put the story first and the history second. He explains the alterations at the back of the book. He does not write history books but excellent historical novels. Still, you will learn a lot of history through reading his novels and in an entertaining way.

While waiting for the next in his Nero series, I am reading his book, Lion: A Novel of Ancient Athens. I am not a lady that is very interested in battles and war, but I find I like the book anyway because of his exciting style of writing.

I wish I could have been in his literature class when he was teaching. It would have been my very favorite!