A review by kbuchanan
Emperor Nero: The Splendour Before The Dark by Margaret George

2.0

I couldn't really bring myself to like this one very much. Perhaps some of this is on me, as this book is apparently a follow-up to an earlier Nero novel that I did not know about. I hardly ever make this mistake, but I picked up the audiobook at the library and it mentioned nothing about the earlier novel. However, what bothered me here was not that I felt I had missed out but more that I felt like the writing was somewhat simplistic while also making the research behind the book very, very conspicuous. I appreciate good research, but I don't need hugely long paragraphs proving to me that "I researched what people were eating in this area at this time. Now let me list all of it." It has been quite some time since I have read a work by Margaret George, but I remember liking earlier efforts more.