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Bookmark on DeliciousPublished: Aug. 28, 2011
Words: 80986 (approximate)
Language: English
Short description
“A Frequent Traveller’s Guide to Jovan” chronicles the adventures of Valentin and Cassius, who face traitors, tyrants, bandits, femmes fatale and manage to prevent roughly as many wars as they start — all in service of the Empire. More or less.Extended description
Since the death of their brother the Emperor Dolmus brought the royal brothers Valentin and Cassius back to Monsilys, capital of the great Jovani Empire, Valentin has cured the boredom of court life with poppy-sap and women, while for Cassius the remedy has been ale and the result much the same. Then an ill-fated duel causes their niece the Empress to send them to Gallica to deal with a problem there, and they find themselves drawn ever more back into the world of Jovani politics: a world their brother banished them from seventeen years earlier.As Valentin veers from disaster to disaster, always running from his past and a life he would prefer to forget, Cassius is fascinated by a damaged pleasure slave he rescues from a brothel in Sha-Pensei. Valentin's weapon is sly diplomacy, while Cassius prefers the honesty of the sword, but will either be enough to protect Jovan, and themselves?
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Tags
romance, adventure, family drama, gay, fantasy, family, slavery, fantasy action adventure, sibling relationshipsAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
Erin Klitzke
on Sep. 06, 2011 :
I am fascinated by and love studying the Romans, especially from the late Republic and early Imperial eras, then toward the fall of the empire (mostly 5th century). Part of what drew me to the Traveller's Guide was the very clear Imperial inspiration for Jovan. If you have even a passing knowledge of the history of the Roman Empire, or European history as a larger whole, your mind is awake and brimming with the possibilities of what the adventures undertaken by the imperial Uncles might lead to. Names like Gallica harken back to the troubles faced by Rome consistently in Gaul and makes you sit up a little straighter and lean forward, waiting to see what their travels are going to reveal about their world and the state of the empire.
Reading the first entry, I came to like both of the brothers very much. The descriptions are very vivid and full of personification--a fortress hunches and broods over the town below and the like.
I followed this book as webfiction, and I'm very glad that it's been released as an ebook now. It's a great read. Anyone who's worried about the "gay" romance in the book needn't worry: it's tastefully done and as a reader, I was more interested in the emotion that Black brought out in her characters as she put them through their paces than the actual intimate acts.
All in all, well worth the time to read.
(review of free book)