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The Legionary

por James Mace

Series: Soldier of Rome (1)

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Rome's Vengeance In the year A.D. 9, three Roman Legions under Quintilius Varus were betrayed by the Germanic war chief, Arminius, and then destroyed in the forest known as Teutoburger Wald. Six years later, Rome is finally ready to unleash Her vengeance on the barbarians. The Emperor Tiberius has sent Germanicus Caesar, his adopted son, into Germania with an army of 40,000 legionaries. They come not on a mission of conquest, but one of annihilation. With them is a young Legionary named Artorius. For him, the war is a personal vendetta'a chance to avenge his brother, who was killed in Teutoburger Wald. In Germania, Arminius knows the Romans are coming. He realizes that the only way to fight the Romans is through deceit, cunning, and plenty of well-placed brute force. In truth, he is leery of Germanicus, knowing that he was trained to be a master of war by the Emperor himself. The entire Roman Empire held its breath as Germanicus and Arminius faced each other in what would become the most brutal and savage campaign the world had seen in a generation; a campaign that could only end in a holocaust of fire and blood.… (más)
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Six. Long. Years. For Six long years, Artorius has longed for revenge. His older brother, Metellus was brutally murdered at Teutoburger Wald by Arminius and his men. Men who were supposed to be loyal to Rome. Now of age, Artorius joins the Roman Legions. And now Rome and Artorius are bend on revenge. But Arminius is cunning and he isn't going to bow before Rome and her legionaries.
I have read a lot of books about Rome, but none about her military conquests. Rome's military might is (in)famous, and was a force to be reckoned with. Rome was the military gold standard.
The characters in this book were good. Althought Artouris' main goal was revenge, he wasn't one dimensional. His mental and physical development matched his character development. The material in this book is VERY dark and gritty at some places. The brutality is almost overwhelming, but it is accurate. This isn't fictionalized drama. Mace doesn't gloss over the harsh realities faced by Rome's legionaries. I found the high contrast between Germania's roughness and Rome's silkiness fascinating.
This was a great book, and I found myself engrossed despite the "manliness" of this book. I also read the sequel to this book, Soldier of Rome: The Sacrovir Revolt. I will review this book on Wednesday! I will probably find myself reading the rest of theses books after I fulfill some other reading obligations. ( )
1 vota allisonmacias | Feb 10, 2012 |
A Kindle book. I read this through because I like novels of the Roman army, and the campaigns of Germanicus are a good story from Tacitus. The prose was wooden, the dialogue terrible: stilted, lecturing, not at all like someone was actually speaking. The Romans are good, the Germans are bad, and the Romans stand for freedom and honor, the Germans are treacherous and deserved to die. The young legionary Artorius is the wooden image of the soldier filled with lust for revenge for his brother murdered in the Teutoburgerwald, and his companions are similar type figures. I needed an escape to another time and got it, but can imagine a much better book. ( )
  neurodrew | Aug 23, 2011 |
Before I go further into reviewing this book, I am going to say, it’s a “guys” book. No fancy schmancy romantic war ideas, no going back to a tear stained love interest who was waiting for him to come back home or silly sappy love drama to make you cringe, etc etc you get the hint. This is full on brutal war descriptions, with the emphasis on brotherhood and fighting together against all odds.

The author did a really good job with his homework in making this book as historically accurate as possible, even providing footnotes, and where he got them from. I liked the amount of historical detail put into this book so every little moment was easily pictured, and descriptions of Roman military tactics, their weapons, and how they fought was well written. The plot was simple, and although it has been done before, it still served as a good basic story to introduce Artorius to the reader.

His development as a soldier was well done, although one could only assume the worst as it seemed that Artorius just got more angrier throughout the novel. The other characters in the book served as just supporting cast, although I wish there was more to them - although some had distinct personalities (Valens with his women, Magnus and his Northern ancestry) I wish there was just more development with them as I wanted to know more about these other characters too. It is a brutal book, battle scenes are written with extreme detail and the amount of violence is high. Although realistic because war is never something to be taken lightly, the sheer brutality of it described in this book may deter the readers from reading this.

The only other criticism I could see, is some readers might thing the testosterone level in this book really reaches its’ limits. It might be a turn off for some, I didn’t mind as it did seem obvious this book does cater to the male demographic. (Let’s just say, Artorius turns out to be a very very frustrated man, har har).

I thought it was very well done, and I want to keep reading the rest of this series. I’d like to know what happens next! I greatly recommend this to others who are fond of military history, or who love a good book about Ancient Rome. ( )
1 vota sensitivemuse | Aug 8, 2011 |
In Soldier of Rome: Legionary we meet a young man, Artorius, who joins the Legions in order be a part of the force sent to punish the German barbarians for the Teutoburger Wald massacre. They had wiped out 3 Roman Legions including the one his older brother had been attached to. We follow Artorius as he joins the Legions as a recruit, is trained to be a Legionary and finally marches with the army to exact vengeance upon the barbarian horde.

This book happens primarily after the death of Caesar Augustus when Tiberius has taken over. An interesting and popular time for Roman historical fiction. While I’m not a Roman historian, what knowledge I do have about the time period matched with the facts Mace used in his stories. I believe he tried to be accurate in the details, especially when he described the Legions' weapons and their use.

This book tells a good story, though a little on the gruesome side (not a lot, but periodically he goes into details). The author has his favorites who you expect to come through mostly unscathed. All the bad things happen to others. This is not a dig against the book (and my wife prefers stories that work like that!) but it’s kind of like the Western , or even a David Eddings book, where you know the good guys are going to win, and not everyone enjoys that kind of story. I did enjoy the book and I do plan to acquire at least the next one in the series if not all of them. ( )
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Rome's Vengeance In the year A.D. 9, three Roman Legions under Quintilius Varus were betrayed by the Germanic war chief, Arminius, and then destroyed in the forest known as Teutoburger Wald. Six years later, Rome is finally ready to unleash Her vengeance on the barbarians. The Emperor Tiberius has sent Germanicus Caesar, his adopted son, into Germania with an army of 40,000 legionaries. They come not on a mission of conquest, but one of annihilation. With them is a young Legionary named Artorius. For him, the war is a personal vendetta'a chance to avenge his brother, who was killed in Teutoburger Wald. In Germania, Arminius knows the Romans are coming. He realizes that the only way to fight the Romans is through deceit, cunning, and plenty of well-placed brute force. In truth, he is leery of Germanicus, knowing that he was trained to be a master of war by the Emperor himself. The entire Roman Empire held its breath as Germanicus and Arminius faced each other in what would become the most brutal and savage campaign the world had seen in a generation; a campaign that could only end in a holocaust of fire and blood.

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