Title – Spartacus III: The Pharaoh’s Blade (The Spartacus Chronicles #3)
Author – Robert Southworth
Genre – Historical Ficton
Length – 254 Pages (Kindle)
Publication – 4th April 2015
My Rating – 5/5 Stars
Synopsis
Empires clash as they hunt for a fabled blade. Spartacus and his friends fight for survival, amidst men who will stop at nothing to hold the legendary weapon. Danger threatens from the shadows, as old and new enemies emerge with violent intent. Spartacus and those he loves will stand together and even the Gods are undecided upon their fate.
Review
So this is Rob’s third and final Spartacus story and wow, what a great way to end it.
The story starts well with the back story into a legendary dagger, it is quickly shown to us that this dagger is not one you want falling into the hands of the wrong person. so much so Thutmose who currently holds the dagger send it away from his land as he knows the in wrong hands it could caused disaster.
Fast forward a bit and now we find ourselves back with our hero Spartacus along with his friends Cassian and Plinius,
Our friends are approached while returning from war and thrust it to one last war to secure the peaceful life they wish so much for. Crassus their enemy will do anything to get this dagger and its up to Spartacus to make sure this doesn’t happen
The book quickly moves from battle to battle, each side incurring loses and we see our hero’s deal with this loss
I really don’t want to give too much away as I think you should read the story for yourself and I hope like myself you won’t be disappointed with how the book ends. I knew Rob wouldn’t be able to keep this series going forever but I really do think he tied the series up nicely.
Rest assured if you’ve read the pervious two books you will love this.
Since reading the first two instalments I can see the editing has improved, I think I noted only a couple spelling/grammar errors but nothing that stopped my reading progress or spoilt the story
Overall I can’t think of anything that I didn’t like about this book, I felt the story progressed at a good pace so you didn’t get bogged down in fight scenes. The new characters fitted in well and the story line itself was intriguing. I found I read this book pretty quickly as Rob kept my interest throughout the story
Honestly if this is your type of genre then you should definitely read this series
Keep the books coming Rob!
Great review:)
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Rob is a great guy and an under-rated writer, it’s good to see him getting some well deserved attention. 🙂
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Thanks for the kind words…getting better all the time…….
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