Good sequel, sequel though.

Nicely written with good character development and empathetic description of the characters in the usual well crafted way Ben Kane is so good at. A relieve, that the overly repeated plot twist of poor hapless characters (dependent soldier) mistreated or even deceived by a superior has been reigned-in this time. I do feel this to be a bit over-utilized not only by Ben Kane but all of the authors of this genre.
As always with Brn Ksne, great imaginative and reslistic historical details of people, soldiers and their lives during this early imperial Roman time 2.000 years ago!

First time I read about how the unrest of a legion could have played out - very interesting to weave the longer term repercussions on morale and discipline into the plot. Provides a feeling how (much later in history) the soldier Ceasars emerged and how the whole system de-stabilized.

I only provided 4 stars for the story as I did find the overall plot meandering a bit too much w/o a strong, main storyline and w/o a main focal point.

Of course, with that regard, it was much easier to write the first book of this trilogy with the cataclysmic Roman defeat in the Teutoburger forest. I wonder, if a bit more storytelling about the difficult relationship between Germanicus and Tiberius would have provided a historically more dense context and thus more “beef” to the story.
But I must stress, I’m a quite strict critique, and I literally have never seen the second book of a trilogy surpass the first one. Any reader of the first book will wish to read this sequel and will be very happy with it.

Finally, David Rintoul’s reading performance is once again absolutely outstanding!

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