Review: An Amazingly Engaging Story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2012
Having recently readRoman, by the same author, and really enjoyed it, I thought I'd give another of his history-based novels a try.This book has a very different feel to Roman, mainly because there are two threads running concurrently - one set in ancient Roman times, with the second thread being a modern-day one.  In this respect, it reminds me of Wilbur Smith's two books,River GodandThe Seventh Scroll, except where his stories are told in two separate books, Dead Virgin covers both the past and the present threads in a single book.I found the story more interesting than Roman, and I think that's because this is more like a mystery novel, which has always appealed to me.The amount of historical information in this story is just about right - not too much to be boring (for somebody who never enjoyed history that much), but enough of it, cleverly dotted throughout the book, to add the necessary degree of reality.Once again, I highly recommend this book, and look forward to choosing another by this up-and-coming author.