Review: The Britannia Conspiracy: London's finest emerge
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2014
A glorious romp through London turns into a gripping adventure in British alternative history in The Britannia Conspiracy. All hell breaks loose in the city of London and we watch Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral make his ways through the turmoil, all the while the destruction serving as a tour of London's greatest historical landmarks for the reader. Various maps provided help the reader get a better spatial sense of the story as we traverse the chaos. We soon find that Roman soldiers, thousands of years dead, have returned to create the havoc in the characters' midst. Vignettes with at first seemingly unimportant characters gain new meaning when the characters return later as a pivotal part of the plot, where they bring new excitement and loads of twists and turns to the fast-paced novel, and a few torturous cliffhangers to boot.The Britannia Conspiracy has it where it counts: smart, but not too intellectual; exciting and action-filled, but not superficially so; worldly, but never boring. Believable dialogue, riveting action and an ingenious use of real history to create something fictional but altogether stirring make this book a hot summer read. Once you pick The Britannia Conspiracy up, you won't put it down until the end - and then you'll wait on the edge of your seat for the next book.