Author: Letitia Coyne
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Britannia is set during the ancient Roman Empire. Maia is a young newlywed whose life should be filled with excitement and young love. Instead, her husband has abandoned her to re-enlist in the army without a word.
After meeting Justicia and her group of ladies, Maia decides to join them and sneak away from the only home she's ever known and her unpleasant mother-in-law. She meets up with Lucius, another soldier in the Roman army and friend of her husband, Cilo. Lucius ends up helping Maia a lot. Not only that, but of course he falls in love with her.
Maia is actually a girl from Britannia. Her mother and her had been sold in to slavery after the Roman conquest of the region. She grew up with Cilo and sees him as nothing more than a brother. Still, they get married but Maia cannot help but feel like Cilo is hiding something from her. That is why she decides that she must go and confront him in her mother's homeland.
I really enjoyed this book. Overall the author did a good job creating a believable ancient Roman world and Britannia under Roman rule. I am also a bit basis to stories set in ancient Rome - one of my favorite time periods in history. The characters are also interesting and well developed. Overall, the story was solid and interesting. I did not feel bored at all while reading this book.
I also liked seeing Maia confronting Cilo about why he left her alone and then finally learning everyone's secrets. The love triangles and politics between Cilo and Justicia was a nice addition to the story. Cilo loves Lucius. Justicia loves Lucius. But Lucius only loves Maia. I did not feel bad for Cilo and Justicia though.
There is one thing that kind of threw me out of the story at the beginning and again near the end. Cilo, the pagan Roman, calls Maia his "angel". I can understand why this might have been missed in editing since the book is self published, but it still annoyed me a bit. There were a couple of other modern word choices that seemed a bit out of place in a clean historical story. At the same time though, it was not enough to ruin the story for me.
Overall I really enjoyed the story and will be reading the next book in this series.
Rating: 4 our of 5
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