In this excellent work, the reader quickly becomes immersed in the world. One might think that a work of this caliber would require some knowledge of the history of this great civilization, but I knew nothing of the Hittites or their greatest King Suppiluliumas before reading this story. But, this book changed many of my predispositions, and stoked in me a new interest in the ancient world. The ancient world is a time that has interested me in the past, but could never really lure me away from my deep love of history in feudal Asia and Europe. Anyone with a penchant for historical fiction or fantasy fiction should find a reason to sit down, open this one up and throw themselves into it-body and soul. This book is, far and away, my favorite book of the year-and I read a lot of books. It could be-it should be-the greatest fiction-stories of historical, bigger than life figures that actually lived-people whose real lives are at least as interesting and filled with drama as Aragorn’s or Tywin Lannister’s or Luke Skywalker’s. I love reading historical nonfiction and I itch to read fiction that can bring history to life. It is the mainstay of a class of fiction that is as prolific as it is average.Īnd that is profoundly disappointing to me. A hundred romances set in medieval Scotland or Renaissance Italy, or Victorian England. In this age of formula fiction and uber-mass market storytelling, historical fiction has become the instrument of the romance market.
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