Review: Really Good Historical Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2013
There are a lot of good reviews here so I'll just add my agreement - the author's strength lies in creating her characters and she does an excellent job of it.  They seem so real - and the book transports you to a fascinating time and place.  I especially liked that the slave issue didn't show any hypocrisy and towards the end when the two heroines were thinking, one of the men thought, "they seem like men."  Which made me lol because at that time and place, yeah, men probably didn't even realize women could think; maybe women didn't either.The relationship between the father and the heroine was so realistic, normally it would have seemed like a deus ex machina but the skill in which the writer wove them showed insomuch as it was simply touching instead.Really enjoyed the experience, and loved the whole "Pompeii" aspect, too.