Rebellion (Eagles of Empire 22) (Eagles of the Empire Book 108)

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The battle scenes are explicit, without gratuitous horror. The main characters Cato and Macro, are well-rounded and believable. However, having lived in Camulodunum, with a wealth of local knowledge I have a lot of sympathy for the Iceni and Boudica! They were horribly exploited and betrayed by the Romans. Mi primer Scarrow. No me acuerdo por qué lo metí al "to read", creo que lo recomendó alguien y...bueno, bien, se lee de forma grata, hay mucha acción, mucho diálogo y la trama tiene su interés. Ahí gana las estrellas.

If you find yourself looking for better accounts of ancient warfare there are quite a few good authors out there. Christian Cameron is the best, although all his ancient world series ( Tyrant, Long War, and Commander) are all set in the Greek world. For Rome you have Ben Kane's Eagles and Clash of Empires. I find Kane frustratingly uninterested in nonmilitary topics, but he does at least understand them. Preston Holtry's Arrius books are an often underlooked series. And Harry Sidebottom's Warrior of Rome books are what you get when you cross a gifted novelist with a genuine historian. All come highly recommended. The story is well know and I won't repeat it here for feel of spoiling it for the reader. Needless to say, both Cato and Macro are involved in some of their deadliest challenges yet. The story doesn’t let up all the way through as something is always happening leaving you feeling the urgency of the situation.AD 60 and Macro and Cato are enjoying a bit of peace in Camulodunum with their families. Macro has now retired and is serving as the Senior Magistrate while Prefect Cato is still in the army but not on active duty. But their peace doesn’t last long. Governor Suetonius is making an attempt to finally conquer Britannia by defeating the Ordovices and the druids on the Isle of Mona and he wants Cato to assist him. Their next campaign will be the invasion of Britannia with the Roman army, until in Britannia they will stumble into a conspiracy to overthrow the Emperor. He gains tremendous inspiration for writing his novels while walking with his dogs around the ruins of the Roman town situated on the outskirts of Norwich. Apart from writing novels, Simon also keeps himself busy in developing projects for film and television along with his brother Alex.

This story kept me reading till late in the night as I wanted to be sure that my favourite characters were going to survive. This is the next instalment, the twenty first book, in the brilliant ‘Eagles of the Empire’ series. The author evokes what life must have been like in the Roman Empire and in the Roman Army in particular. This is the twenty-first book in the series and honestly, it’s the one I’ve been waiting for. The story of the rebellion of Boudica is well known to those of us growing up in the UK and I was so excited that this series was finally going to cover these events. The way Simon Scarrow has fleshed out the characters and brought them to life is incredible. I’ve always appreciated how the morality of the Roman invasion has been discussed over this series and how Macro and Cato genuinely see Rome as a guiding light of civilisation. Their insistence that the conquered isles will benefit and should be grateful eerily echoes the arguments of the much later British Empire.Simon also judges the annual Scarrow Award in the Fiction category held in the school. The family of Simon has one more author in the form of his brother, Alex Scarrow, who has written a number of novels himself. Simon says that his passion for writing had begun at a very young age. Finally, there is a flaw, I feel, with Scarrow’s writing. As an English teacher, I am constantly telling students to describe and not to overuse dialogue. This was Scarrow’s crucial error. The novel is almost entirely dominated by dialogue and as a result, there is not enough sense of place; at times, it is even unclear exactly who is speaking as Scarrow does not differentiate his characters’ voices nearly enough and rather than adding drama and immediacy, the dialogue slows the pace and infuriates. Simon has also co-written with T. J. Andrews three bestselling novels set in the Roman era, ARENA, INVADER, and PIRATA. Writing with Lee Francis, Simon is the author of the contemporary thriller PLAYING WITH DEATH Awards of Simon Scarrow This is a compelling first novel in what has turned into a long-running series. Scarrow's aim is to deliver Sharpe-style military thrills and spills in the Roman era, and his books focused around a central pairing of interesting characters: the weedy and scholarly Cato, young and inexperienced, and the battle-scarred and squat Macro, an experienced soldier. I immediately liked Macro and he soon became my favourite character, a simple soldier just trying to do his job.