DNF at 24%

Interesting concept at first but then wasn't feeling it at all Spoilers.

I feel like the author was banking on the fact that her authors knew about Marc and Cleo realtionship. That they already knew the history,read the play and probably watched the Elizabeth Taylor with Richard Burton version( and the Timothy Dilton with Billy Zane version) a million times like I have. If you didn't you probably felt that it was hardly no built up and it was pretty much lust. You had really no built up on their realtionship before the scene where the entities was inside of them ,they had sex and then the aftermath was " oh I do love you but I'm using you to get what I want. Lets runaway back to Alexandria ans start and affair. Yay!" They hardly had no interaction with each other until that scene on the boat. In the prologue,they had that one scene together but they was pretty much starky at each other before she left before Caesar died. Now he was trying to get an audience with her for two years which she declined and then all of sudden she's give him one which he's not questioning it at all? Seriously? I just. pass on this.

The whole chapter with Octavian was so out of place...

I also skipped a couple chapters to that one chapter with Marc and Octavia which was the main reason why I decided to let this book go.

Also the grammar..

I found myself correcting the inner monologue lines of the characters becasue the tense was so wrong. I'm not that good at grammar myself but you really think a published book would be run through editors to make sure everything looks correct.

So my first dive into historical fiction wasn't good..