I wasn’t expecting much from this but Clements has actually done a really good job of translating a very visual show into a novel. I enjoyed it thoroughly from start to finish and love how it took on th What an epic ride into a tale of Spartacus and the many eccentric characters we have come to know on Spartacus: I was so hoping it was going to be exactly like the show, I wanted to know what everyone was thinking, I wanted to read the sights, smells, touch, that Spartacus felt as he did everything So producers of a Spartacus TV series have to plan carefully - because once you get the gladiators into open opposition with Rome, things start adn happen in rapid order. I was disappointed in this book Even the physical dimension of the novel is better than it needs to be: While there is a ton of action and killing obviouslythere is actually a lot of unexpected depth to this story. ClementsĪnd that may well be the problem with the book – because it takes place in the midst of the series after Spartacus summoned the rain but just before Sura arrivesnothing can happen that changes the situation for any of the characters – they cannot leave the story any better or any worse off than they came in because the book cannot be made necessary to the show.
Book Review: Spartacus: Swords and Ashes by J.M. Swords and Ashesthe wealthy games promoter Pelorus is murdered on the eve of the departure of his friend Gaius Verres for the governorship of Sicily. It is a vastly entertaining spartavus, with a colorful palette of characters to propel each scene forward. Uninspired writing and plot, fairly weak characterization, and tie-ins to the TV series that were all too convenient and predictable.īut it also means that all of the layered exploration of Roman society and its ugly realities is soaked into every scene. Zwar erschienen mir einige Handlungen der Charaktere etwas I enjoyed it thoroughly from start to finish and love how it took on the feel of the tv show. It would be all too easy to tell a conventional, watered-down tale in the “Spartacus” universe, especially if the final product was meant to appeal to a more general audience. Which brings us to Spartacus: Thanks to slave defections from nad nearby countryside, Spartacus soon had tens of thousands of men at his command - and those kinds of numbers brought an official response from Rome itself: An original story that had the voice of all the characters of the television series with some added new ones. Book Review: Spartacus: Swords and Ashes | Open Letters Monthly – an Arts and Literature Review However, the true deceit lies within the executors of his will, who may have had a hand in his death.
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