Mistress of Rome

I'm not rating this book or marking it as read because I mostly skimmed it, but I did skim a lot of this huge fucking thing, so I'm just gonna put some barebones thoughts down:

- This book is not for me, so it's no surprise I didn't like it. I'm doing a mini-survey of books that feature Roman slavery bc I'm curious what ‘tropes' are associated with it, and unsurprisingly it's a lot of Christian inspirational nonsense (not this book) and romantic melodrama (this book). I don't like romantic melodrama, but this book isn't trying to be what it's not, so that's solidly a me problem.

- Did you know that Thea is Jewish? Don't worry, readers won't have to deal with that in any way, shape, or form. Pre-Maimonides Judaism would be a really interesting angle to cover; I doubt I'll find it in any book aimed at a general audience though.

- I wrote other stuff here, but it was just even more mean-spirited complaining about a book that, again, was never meant to be read by me, so I deleted it.