Ratings21
Average rating4
I really wanted to like this. It was recommended to me alongside books I loved like Circe and Clytemnestra, but setting was all that the three had in common. I ended up DNFing it at around 65% when I realized that was the case.
I gave it three stars because perhaps I would have liked it if this brand of historical fiction was up my alley, but it's not and that's on me, not the author.
I will say the plot was essentially nonexistent with nothing keeping it together but the characters. This was essentially just a very long series of vignettes into what life as a concubine in Pompeii would have been like, but there was no advancement of plot or story. So, interesting but not compelling for the length.