For lovers of history ....Jodi Taylor
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The pace is brilliant 
Its not just the story of the plots its the context she sets them. This is an author who LOVES her history, she is completely and utterly in love with history itself, the series is basically a love poem to the subject of History.
As a lapsed true devotee to the greatest subject in the world, these books are basically like a balm upon my soul. To study history academically I found is to have all the fun and joy sucked out of the subject. Once I finished with it at uni I pretty much ignored the subject for a decade. Ive rediscovered my love of it since turning 30 and been able to indulge myself back into the subject and rather than worrying about how dry and annoying Id find it again, thinking about Uni etc, instead its been like it was when I was younger, its been a joyful reunion. I so get what Taylor is writing about and how she wants to make it leap of the page and make you want to read more about the period she immerses you in.
I may be biased because Im also a HUGE Troy/Mycenai geek And Im an engineer. A book series about Historians and engineers and rogue maniac inventing Professors? Its the greatest series in the world
Its not just the story of the plots its the context she sets them. This is an author who LOVES her history, she is completely and utterly in love with history itself, the series is basically a love poem to the subject of History.
As a lapsed true devotee to the greatest subject in the world, these books are basically like a balm upon my soul. To study history academically I found is to have all the fun and joy sucked out of the subject. Once I finished with it at uni I pretty much ignored the subject for a decade. Ive rediscovered my love of it since turning 30 and been able to indulge myself back into the subject and rather than worrying about how dry and annoying Id find it again, thinking about Uni etc, instead its been like it was when I was younger, its been a joyful reunion. I so get what Taylor is writing about and how she wants to make it leap of the page and make you want to read more about the period she immerses you in.
I may be biased because Im also a HUGE Troy/Mycenai geek
And Im an engineer. A book series about Historians and engineers and rogue maniac inventing Professors? Its the greatest series in the world If anybody reads the end of the Spartans in the last book and doesn't tingle then you never studied history. Anybody who did study history and especially classical history and better yet has gone to Greece and the ancients sites...Jack f
king Reacher it isn't.
These books are unapologetically love notes to History.
king Reacher it isn't.These books are unapologetically love notes to History.
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