The Cybelene Conspiracy

This series of books is a breath of fresh air. While the story its self is nothing amazing, the author's ability to bring the reader in the world of the Western Roman empire in the 5th century AD, is just sensational. The characters are great too; there is the evil senator, the good doctor, strange......more

Doesn't shy away from bodily functions, though that's not so surprising given the husband/wife team that make up the protagonists are physicians. I don't know what it was, but I just wasn't feeling it: There's a cult and secret gladiators and smuggling and all kinds of elements that should make this......more

If I had it to do over, I would have started with the first book in this series (this is the second). This text referred back often enough to what happened in the first book that I basically know that entire story now—kind of like when a poorly made movie trailer reveals so much of the plot that all......more

Come, come! Some of the other review(er)s are too harsh! This is not fine writing, and the research is not worn lightly; in fact, yes, there's much to mock - but it's an interesting and neglected period, and the author does his best to animate it in a way that might have been better done by others, b......more

Not the world's greatest detective, but a very interesting evocation of the late roman empire in the west.......more