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From the national bestselling author of Daughters of Rome and Mistress of Rome comes a tale of love, power, and intrigue spanning the wilds of the Empire to the seven hills of Rome.
Powerful, prosperous, and expanding ever farther into the untamed world, the Roman Empire has reached its zenith under the rule of the beloved Emperor Trajan. But neither Trajan nor his reign can last forever...
Brash and headstrong, Vix is a celebrated ex-gladiator returned to Rome to make his fortune. The sinuous, elusive Sabina is a senator's daughter who craves adventure. Sometimes lovers, sometimes enemies, Vix and Sabina are united by their devotion to Trajan. But others are already maneuvering in the shadows. Trajan's ambitious Empress has her own plans for Sabina. And the aristocratic Hadrian-the Empress's ruthless protégé and Vix's mortal enemy-has ambitions he confesses to no one, ambitions rooted in a secret prophecy.
When Trajan falls, the hardened soldier, the enigmatic empress, the adventurous girl, and the scheming politician will all be caught in a deadly whirlwind of desire and death that may seal their fates, and that of the entire Roman Empire...
- Sales Rank: #409784 in Books
- Published on: 2012-04-03
- Released on: 2012-04-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.21" h x 1.06" w x 5.49" l, .89 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 512 pages
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"The lives of an ambitious soldier, a patrician heiress and a future emperor fatefully intersect...Quinn handles Imperial Rome with panache."
"[An] epic, sexy romp—the long-awaited sequel to Daughters of Rome...Readers will delight in the depictions of historical figures like Hadrian and Trajan, as well as the engrossing and dramatic relationships that drive this entertaining story."
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“[An] epic, sexy romp—the long-awaited sequel to Mistress of Rome ....Readers will delight in the depictions of historical figures like Hadrian and Trajan, as well as the engrossing and dramatic relationships that drive this entertaining story.”
-- Publishers Weekly (*Starred Review*)
“The lives of an ambitious soldier, a patrician heiress and a future emperor fatefully intersect.... Quinn handles Imperial Rome with panache.”
-- Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Kate Quinn is a native of southern California. She attended Boston University, where she earned a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Classical Voice. A lifelong history buff, she first got hooked on ancient Rome while watching "I, Claudius" at the age of seven. She wrote her first book during her freshman year in college, retreating from a Boston winter into ancient Rome, and it was later published as "Mistress of Rome." A prequel followed, titled "Daughters of Rome," and then a sequel written while her husband was deployed to the Middle East.
"I realized that my Roman legionary hero in `Empress of the Seven Hills' was fighting in the same part of the world where my US Navy husband was deployed. Life imitating art, or art imitating life? I have no idea!"
Kate is currently working on her fourth novel, set in the Italian Renaissance. She also has succumbed to the blogging bug, and keeps a blog filled with trivia, pet peeves, and interesting facts about historical fiction. She and her husband now live in Maryland with a small black dog named Caesar, and her interests include opera, action movies, cooking, and the Boston Red Sox.
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Full-Flavored Rome, Plenty of Spice
By Judith Starkston
Kate Quinn knows how to serve up a full-flavored Rome with plenty of spice. Empress of the Seven Hills is the third of her books (Mistress of Rome and Daughters of Rome), although you can get by without reading them in order. They are all page-turners, lots of fun.
As usual with Kate Quinn's books, Empress is driven along by fully-developed characters. Her main heroine, Sabina, starts out interesting and keeps developing and growing. Quinn has a way of granting her central female characters the fate they work very hard to get, but then aren't the least sure they want once they gain it. Some of the book's characters are deliciously wicked, several decidedly lusty. She depicts intelligence with depth and perception. Her smart people aren't always likeable or good, but you admire their brains. The characters we like, and there are several, keep us rooting for them with increasing fervor, and sometimes things come out as we wish. As with her other books, Empress is full of juicy relationships, both offbeat and more conventional. You won't be able to predict the paths of this cast. They kept surprising me.
Quinn is an excellent writer of dialogue. You get an intimate feel for her characters through their words. Vix, a physically commanding legionary soldier with an explosive temper, uses short, muscular expressions. Hadrian, who starts out a fairly likeable man but who increasingly reveals a cold stiffness, uses long, pompous sentences even in the middle of a military camp. Quinn chooses a contemporary idiom including the expletives you hear in 21st century America, but it works well. Quinn's dialogue never yanks me out of the past or jars me as inappropriate. I stay right there inside her characters in ancient Rome. Many of the concerns and themes prevalent in ancient Rome are still with us in contemporary America, which may partially explain why the modern idiom feels right to me: political cynicism about corruption especially financial, contradictory sexual mores, the scorn one faction has for the "elitist intellectuals," and the breakdown of family and other social structures, or at least the perceived breakdown.
Quinn fudges a bit with some history--most particularly with Titus's role--but she owns up to everything in her author's note and explains the changes. They are integral to her tale. She's great on the details of life--what a legionary ate while on the march and a quick look at how he cooked it, for example. Her knowledge of the period is plenty deep enough that she avoids the failing of a lot of historical fiction writers when they drag out the same details over and over for lack of knowing any others. She added to my store of interesting facts and, more importantly, she builds a persuasive world. You'll be there.
Daughters of Rome excelled at portraying the Rome of women. This book does that to some extent also, but much of the time it steps into the world of men. Sabina's interest in seeing the world takes her far from the safe atrium of her father's home, and she certainly doesn't like hanging out with her mother-in-law. This gives new territory for Quinn's talent.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Un-put-downable!
By The Romance Reviews
Reviewed by Ashia
for TheRomanceReviews.com
When you pick up a Kate Quinn book, you're sure to get a compelling story that's un-put-downable.
Vix, the son of Thea and Arius (Mistress of Rome), is now grown up and wants to seek his fortune in Rome. Along the way, he meets Sabina, Titus and Hadrian, and he couldn't have known the impact each would have on his life.
History is supposed to be dry, but Kate Quinn made Ancient Rome come alive with her vivid descriptions and awesome worldbuilding. Her characters are three-dimensional, unique and distinct from another. It may have helped that most are historical figures, but I still have to applaud her imagination in giving us characters who are sympathetic and who capture our interest long after we have reached the last page of the book. And make us want more.
Vix is a great character--irreverent, confident in himself, almost larger than life, even when he was a brash young man at eighteen. It was great to see him grow over the years into the man he became by the end of the book. Ooh, and is it any wonder I imagined Gerard Butler as Vix?
Titus is a surprising character, but quite likeable with his numerous quotes. Wonder if he is really like that in real life. He's also one who grew into himself by the end of the book, and it's great to see that though he became more confident and assured ten, fifteen years from when he first met Vix, at his core, Titus never really changed--still honorable, still a man of principle years later.
This book being historical fiction, with history having happened years before, there was really nothing Ms. Quinn could do to change the outcome of things. Yet, I have to applaud her for making these characters (real historical figures like Sabina, Titus, Hadrian, Empress Plotina, etc) come to life, and make us see that they are not much different from us--gripped by ambition, adventure, love--people we can relate to, people whose motivations are clear and understandable. Though she may have fudged some details, EMPRESS OF THE SEVEN HILLS is good reading.
The story ends on a cliffhanger and we know from history what will happen next (sort of), yet I'm still eager to read the next installment of Vix's story. I hope Ms. Quinn gets to writing it soon! In the meantime, I'm going to search out her books on the Borgias. If I know Kate Quinn, it's sure to be fascinating reading!
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Looking forward to the Coming Blood Bath
By Stephanie Dray
Quinn specializes in irreverent, fast-paced romps through antiquity. In a literary world where historical fiction often takes itself too seriously, Quinn tends to underplay her more serious themes by thumbing her nose at reader expectation. Her smart-alec tone is perfectly suited to the story--that of a hellion-turned-legionary commander and the spirited but unconventional patrician girl he loves.
We expect these star-crossed lovers to be doomed by their difference in birth and any number of imperial laws and marital duties that are likely to keep them apart. But Quinn doesn't take the easy route in this romance. (Indeed, one questions if it really is a romance at all.)
Our scoundrel of a hero loves Emperor Trajan and his legion more than he loves anything. Our aloof heroine is so practical about the realities of life and so determined to be in possession of her own destiny, that love is always a secondary concern. Vix can be an arrogant, womanizing, narrow-minded killing machine, who often has to be guilted into doing the right thing. Sabina doesn't seem to have a sentimental bone in her body; the woman is made of iron.
They would be easy characters to dislike but they are each lovable in their own way. Vix is a sort of cheerful miscreant; he's a big trouble-maker with a warm fuzzy heart underneath it all. Sabina is oddly moved by duty, by loftier philosophical motives than she would admit.
Where our lovers are bonded most closely is not in their mutual affection for each other, but in their hatred for Emperor Trajan's successor, Hadrian, and in their abiding respect for Titus, the last honest man in Rome. Vix and Sabina aren't willing to sacrifice very much for each other--which is why they never stay together for very long--but they're willing to collectively sacrifice for others and it's a sort of redemption.
I loved watching Vix rise in the ranks and took great pleasure from a number of plot points that were set-up in earlier books now brought to fruition. Vix is the strongest character in the book with the most vibrant voice--I see a market for lots of Vix Explores Dacia stories in the future--but the self-deprecating Titus is surprisingly wonderful too.
In all, I enjoyed every page of this book. It was clever and even though it ends on a dark cliff-hanger, it left me grinning.
Who knows, maybe there's a little of Vix in me that I am looking forward to the coming blood bath.
(Full Disclosure: I'm personally acquainted with Kate Quinn, so I always hear the humor in her voice when I'm reading.)
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