Tabula Rasa
Roman Empire Series, Book 6
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Tabula Rasa
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Narrated by:
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Simon Vance
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By:
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Ruth Downie
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The medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, are back in the borderlands of Britannia, this time helping to tend the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall. Having been forced to move off their land, the Britons are distinctly on edge. Then Ruso's recently arrived clerk, Candidus, goes missing. A native boy thinks he sees a body being hidden inside the wall's half-finished stonework, and a worrying rumor begins to spread. When soldiers ransack the nearby farms looking for Candidus, Tilla's tentative friendship with a local family turns to anger and disappointment. Tensions only increase when Branan, the family's youngest son, also vanishes. As Ruso and Tilla try to solve the mystery of the two disappearances - while at the same time struggling to keep the peace between the Britons and the Romans - an intricate scheme involving slavery, changed identities, and fur trappers emerges, and it becomes imperative that Ruso find Branan before it's too late.
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Throughly enjoyable
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A great way of stepping back into a fictional past and putting a fictional story into history. A great story, kept me looking forward to picking up the story from where I had to leave off.
A great way of enjoying the past
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Fabulous
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I have given the performance an average mark of 3 stars instead of the probable 4 stars it deserved because 1 small thing that really peeved me greatly.
A character that only had a small part in this book but has been in previous books also completely changed in voice and attitude. He went from a middle class insipid southerner to a voice of indeterminate local with a more aggressive edge of nature.
How can this happen in a series? My problem I know but Ridiculas none the less.
Aside of that I enjoyed it greatly and am sad I only have one book left to listen to.
Great but.....
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I like Ruso and Tilla and I enjoyed Tabula Rasa very much. In fact, I read it in almost one sitting because it was so hard to put it down. I’m a bit odd in that I don’t read mysteries primarily for the mystery or crime to be solved; I read them for the same reasons I read any other novel. Ruso and Tilla are three-dimensional characters and the problems they face coming from different cultures are realistically portrayed. Downie does an excellent job of recreating Roman Britain during the reign of Hadrian, which is another reason I enjoy the Ruso mysteries. In the case of Tabula Rasa, it was the crimes to be solved that held my attention and made it so difficult to put the book down. I think if a reader enjoys historical mysteries, then he or she should enjoy this novel, but it is the latest in a series and I highly recommend reading the previous books first to understand how Ruso and Tilla’s relationship has evolved over time.
I should mention one of my favorite scenes is when Russo is trying to recite the Aeneid from memory and gets help from Valens and Albanus. Really funny!
Another excellent adventure with Ruso and Tilla
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