[quote=""MLE""]Faith, have you read Darkness and the Dawn by Costain? I believe Aetius is in that -- as a rather unsympathetic character, IIRC.[/quote]
Don't believe I have. Aetius is the antagonist in the second half of my book. He's a complicated man, grew up as a hostage with the Huns, used them to threaten the Empire and later responsible for their downfall; he served and rebelled against the Empress Gallia Placidia. She was constantly appeasing and thwarting him trying to hold the Empire together for her son. Quite a dance.
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What Are You Reading? August 2012
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Vanessa
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I will be starting Penmarric by Susan Howatch at Manchester Airport early tomorrow morning! We're off on holiday for a week to Crete. As it's quite a tome, I'm sure it will keep me occupied for a while!
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About halfway through with Clare Clark's latest novel, Beautiful Lies, about a nineteenth-century British politician's wife with a scandalous past. It's not my favorite Clark, but she's always a stylish writer, and the reading slips by smooth as cream, even if I'm not always on the edge of my seat with suspense.
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