The Parthian

Let me preface this by saying I'm all for seeing more indie authors taking up the historical fiction mantle--I love the genre, but it remains one still largely in the realm of the traditional publishers. That said, I was quite excited when I happened upon Darman's work, particularly for the uniquene......more

Here we have a historical fiction focused on the servile war led by Spartacus that includes a very slight element of fantasy (prophetic visions). There was tremendous potential for a great story, but unfortunately this book had a lot of problems. Michael Page did very well on the audiobook narration.......more

Great historical fiction and quite an epic story. I love having the story told from the outside, and then from inside the slave rebellion. Unlike most books dealing with Spartacus, there is no gladiatorial combat here as the rebellion is already underway when we join the uprising. I read this about......more

The people who rated this book poor must have had a different copy than me. Sure, there were about 100 or so proofing errors but this series was so good I read the 4 books in 4 days. Never have I read a David Gemmell-like historical fiction book about the Parthian empire and it's version of the wars......more

There were several issues with this book. For one thing, it was not proofread. There were plenty of simple grammatical errors and typos that could have easily of been avoided, like how some "the" words left out the beginning T and said "he" instead. It was full of simple mistakes like that which mad......more