![]() ![]() ![]() Only once the plot progressed and the protagonist Nic escaped the mine could I truly invest myself in his story. Much less a slave who constantly talks back to his cruel master and tries to make him look foolish. The story may take place in a fantasy world, but my suspension of disbelief goes only so far and I find it extremely difficult to believe that a slave who introduces himself as one who only obeys orders he thinks worthwhile is a slave who would have lasted very long in a Roman mine. ![]() I began Mark of the Thief with low expectations since it opens with one of the literary stereotypes I find most annoying–the sarcastic and rebellious slave who suffers few consequences, if any, for disobedience. Now wanted by every political figure in Rome, Nic will have to learn how to navigate a world of intrigue if he is to save the empire from rebellion, rescue his sister from slavery, and preserve his own life. Nic, a slave in the mines, is sent to retrieve it, and finds himself the unwitting recipient of new magical powers. When Julius Caesar’s treasure is found in a mine outside Rome, the race to claim his bulla, believed to be imbued with powers from the gods, begins. ![]()
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