Review: Real time or Fantasy?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
This roman legion adventure starts a bit slowly and unevenly with 2 story lines not quite easily followed. When the action devolves onto the Legionnaire Primus, the speed picks up.  Good writing, paints the era, clothing and hard life of the 1st century Legion fairly accurately. One oddity I note.  I have read that a legionnaire during the Tiberius period usually joined for a 20 year enlistment. But our hero ( a generals' son) has enlisted for only 2 years.That aside we have a nice evil bad guy and the blue painted Woade who are the indigenous savages behaving...savagely.  Not painted quite savage enough. There is a lack of personal contact with the Woade.  Escaping from them, the cold weather must be endured.  Wounded, cold, hungry...Now I can’t put it down.  Well, they do escape but leave me wanting more of the Life of Primus