Review: Good series, good values, interesting, historical
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2013
My wife and I both enjoyed this trilogy.  We both read quite a bit and like books with good values, dislike shallow 'romance' novels.  This set kept us interested, seemed realistic to the times, helped us better visualize Biblical times especially how Christians and the Roman government interacted.  The characters had some depth to them, not one faceted.My only complaint was that the story line seemed quite familiar.  A few years back I read another book (series?) that had a similar story line, enough so that at times I though I had read this book before, then realized this story wasn't exactly the same, just parallel in many ways.  Not sure which story was written first.  Also there was a bit of plot repetition with the third book somewhat mirroring the first two books (protagonist lady thrown together with Roman soldier, conflict, resolution).But overall, this series is probably going to be a keeper on our shelves for an eventual reread and enjoyment time, whereas many books are read once then donated away to reduce clutter.