![]() ![]() Arius ends up as Rome’s most celebrated gladiator. Thea ends up as Domitian’s mistress, and the emperor is, unfortunately, a sadistic, abusive whackjob. Through a series of plot twists, they meet, fall in love, and then are tragically separated. The hero and heroine of Mistress of the Seven Hills are Thea, a Jewish slave girl who is the last survivor of Masada, and Arius, a British slave/gladiator. ![]() It helps that these books are set in a time and place I really enjoy - the second-century Roman Empire, beginning in the reign of Domitian. I’m not such a literary snob that I can’t enjoy a book that has some obvious flaws. This is going to be kind of a weird review because I can find an awful lot of things to criticize about Mistress of Rome and its sequel Empress of the Seven Hills, but at the end of the review I’m going to tell you that I did thoroughly enjoy reading them. ![]()
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