The City

City of Victory, Book 2

De: Adrian Goldsworthy

Narrado por: Peter Noble

AD 114: NICOPOLIS

In the depths of the desert on the empire's Eastern Frontier, the Roman army lays siege to the city of Nicopolis.

Estranged from his beloved Enica to keep her safe, centurion Flavius Ferox has secured his freedom after being framed once again. His next quest: to uncover traitors within the Roman ranks.

As the siege builds, widespread corruption seethes and soldiers are murdered in cold blood. Meanwhile, Ferox's investigation brings him closer and closer to the imperial court, and uncovers connections to Hadrian himself...

Gritty, gripping and profoundly authentic, The City is the second book in a brand-new trilogy set in the Roman Empire from bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy.

©2022 Adrian Goldsworthy (P)2022 W F Howes

Exceptional Narration of a gritty tale

Another episode in the saga of Ferrox and Vindex. Not as thrilling as previous books. The pace is measured, deliberate and grim - which is appropriate for a siege.

Loved it.

Another great story with characters that I will be very sad to see go when the series ends.

I love these novels

What a great author and story. Really love the bather and dialogue. The bits of historical trivia are endlessly fascinating to me. Thanks for another tale of Ferox and his misfit band of Britons. “That’s it, we’re buggered!” Until the next time that is.

Good book, but not the easiest listen

As with the 1st book in this series the author introduces a lot of characters that can be difficult to keep up with. Overall the story is decent, and the reader does a good job in his performance.

Pretty good

History was all amazing. Probably the best siege I've ever read, real engineering and realistic fighting / battles. Much better than Hollywood sieges and battles. The characters are good but not as developed as I would have liked. I know in war you just have to obey orders but it felt like most characters didn't have any big changes / "character defining moments". In some flashbacks we do see Domitius making some big decisions. I wish this could have been done in real time or just more time taken on these flashbacks to really flesh out his character. Plot was good and you could really feel it build until the climax and the end. Overall pretty good read.

What a siege

I don’t know what I am going to do when this story ends.
I love Ferox on a level that I don’t understand.
He has to be one of my favorite protagonists, bar none.

Bit of a disappointment

I have enjoyed to this point all of the Ferox novels which I thought reached a high point with Brigantia. This new episode was a bit of a let down. Ferox and his faithful band of Brigantes are being used and abused by the omnipresent bad guy Hadrian. Shipped off to Syria they become pawns in the little Napoleon”s efforts to make a name for himself. There is an lot of focus on Hadrian’s too clever by half attempts at political manipulation, the ego tripping and screwups of a besieging army’s leadership, and a big cataclysmic sword and sandal battle scene at the end wherein Ferox is instrumental in saving the day. But unlike the prior books in the series, the plot line does not engage any interesting sub plots and the limited number of new characters are not particularly sympathetic. Hopefully, Ferox and his remaining men are getting back home in the next installment and resume the romantic and other collateral interests that balanced out prior plot lines. Narration was top shelf.