Commodus

Yes, the world Simon Turney has built faithfully depicts the dubious greatness and certified corruption of Rome. Commodus' character is multi-layered. And that's pretty much about it. Everything else seems detrimental. Turney must be so in love with his verbose style, patting himself on the back. The problem is that he has constructed a hybrid of dialogue based on contemporary speech and terrible anachronistic exclamations. Because I don't believe that a Roman Emperor would actually say ‘‘Shit'' and ‘‘come on, man!'‘

No. Needless to say, I won't read anything by Turney in the future. Not that it matters but anyway.

Many thanks to Orion and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.