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is by far the best book of the series yet, The book is about a pair of Roman legionaries and their adventures as army officers which include leading from the front to solo spy and rescue mission, the setting is Roman invasion of Briton.
The book is perfect mixture of historical facts and creative embellishment, while the timeline, battle style and strategy are historically accurate, the adventure and the one on one fight are realistic and not mystically heroic, only the characters and plot are made up for enriching the reading experience.
The take on Boudica and Prasutagus are wacky, fun and totally unexpected,

This book has darker tone then the previous ones in the series, with the Druids bringing the stakes up.
Did feel the middle kind of got boring, still by the end it was super intense, Its a light read, trademark of Simon Scarrow,
The plot is pretty straightforward: A brief prologue details a ship lost at sea, Only four Romans survive. They wake up on a beach in Britannia only to be taken away by barbaric tribesmen just when they think they're saved.



Cut to Macro and Cato, soldiers in the Roman army, busy trying to conquer Britannia.
There's lots of marching and fighting, and marching and fighting, and fighting and marching, That's until they're given a very special mission: find and save the people who were lost at sea.
The emperor's family.

It's a good book, I'm archaeologist, educated in England, so anything with Roman usually piques my interest, But


The first half of the book is just a long fight scene, There's the prologue which I mentioned, a scene in a tavern where Cato and Macro drink for a little bit, and after that they're constantly on a march or fighting, or recovering from either.



All the time I was reading this, I kept thinking "what's the point" There didn't seem to be much in terms of character development, and at this point, the whole "we got to save the important people from the prologue" hadn't even been mentioned.
Not even once.


And, no offense to Scarrow, but Oit's not his writing style and way with words that sells this book, it's his story.
So it's weird that the story took so long to get

going,


Now, I didn't know this at the time, but this is apparently the third book in as series, though I didn't feel like I'd missed out on much


After themark we get to the core of the story.
They're given their secret mission to save some important people and they run off after some druids.
It's fun, it's exciting, and I enjoyed the story in general,


But at the same time, I have to ask myself: Why did someone decide to pick this up What agent read the firstchapters of this, and decided to the carry on, and then apparently read half a book before hardly anything happened and still went with This cover suggests Scarrow has written some great stuff before I'd never heard of him before this, so I assume that has much to do with it.
And I don't mean to berate him as an author, like I said, I liked the book.



If you like historical fiction, and enjoy a good fight scene or twelve, I'll highly recommend this.

The first book in this longrunning series introduced the oddcouple pairing of Macro and Cato the former an uneducated tough veteran centurion in Rome'snd Legion, and the latter, a young, citysoft underling.
That saw them blooded in Germania, The second book took them to the British Isles, where a vastly outnumbered Roman invading force seeks to establish a foothold.
This third book picks up soon thereafter aroundAD, as they wait for the end of winter, so that the fighting season can start back up.


Having defeated the Catuvellauni chieftain Caractus in the last book, the Romans now must face the mysterious power of Druid cults.
Macro and Cato's unit is deployed with several other centuries to go have a sniff around the countryside, and soon stumble across an entire town that's been put to the sword by the druids animals and children included.
The middle portion of the book has them setting a trap for the druids, and then trying to fight their way back to safety over several days.
As in the previous two books, the smallscale tactics of the Roman legions are engaging, if that's your sort of thing.


Meanwhile, the family of the Legion's tribune were shipwrecked and captured by the druids, Macro and Cato are sent with two sympathetic Celts to try and rescue them before it's too late.
Lots of skulking around in woods and sneaking around hill forts ensues, As in the other books, the writing isn't the most amazing but it does the job and keeps the pages turning.
Similarly, the characters aren't the richest, but they do what they need to, to keep the plot advancing.
It's a fun series, and I suppose I'll try and track down book four at some point.
If you are a Simon Scarrow fan then please shield your eyes, this is not going to be pretty.

I can't believe it! I bought this book and two others in the series based purely on the good reviews left for it on goodreads.
So what I can't believe is how it got them in the first place, This book is atrocious and it's no wonder that people can pick them up from bargain bins in supermarkets.
I'm sure if I got a pair of scissors and cut out all the dialogue I may have myself a book that may be worth reading, but considering I'm not going to do that I've decided to go immediately and trade all three books two of which are unread and brand new from the bookstore at our local book exchange.
I will lose money on them, but I don't have room for books like this on my shelves.

I could only suffer through half of this title before removing my bookmark for good and shoving the book away in disgust.
How does this author get good reviews and sell books It reads as if written by a ten year old.
The dialogue is woeful and of no substance, and is all modern day language, I doubt an Iceni woman fromAD a woman who is actually Boudica during her single days would be saying, "What kind of a girl do you think I am I'm not some cheap tart.
" I mean seriously, how amatuer hour is this stuff, Open any page and it's blaringly rank, "No," Cato whispered, "It's your kinsman who's in danger, He's had a skinful and he's ped Macro off, He'd better watch it. " I dunno, maybe this b grade dialogue is normal for some people, but I don't know how.
I have no doubt that any number of reviewers on this page could outwrite this fellow in a heartbeat.
If a person can really make money off pumping out books like this then I think I had better give up my day job and have a go myself.


Don't be too mad at me Scarrow fans, after all, there are so many good reviews here what does one bad one matter.

Absolutely awful! Too much padding with descriptive writing, Its also like his research has just been moved around, rewritten and dumped on to the page.
No idea where the story is leading, I know the story of Boudicca,

Really, reading through the great reviews people have left I dont really understand how they came to their decision.
Thrown into a bag with another one of these by same author for going to charity shop would have thrown in bin in disgust if the books werent in such excellent condition picked up second hand.
Just awful. WHEN THE EAGLE HUNTS REVIEW

This series gets better with each new episode, Centurion Marco is one of the great's of historicaladventurefiction easily the equal of Sharpe, but with a great vein of humour thrown in.
I'm extremely suprised that the author Simon Scarrow has never served in the British army as the "language" is highly authentic amp most unRoman.
Macro is every corporal I've ever met! As an exsquaddy I found huge parts of Roman military life uncannily similar to the modern british army.


"When the Eagle hunts" focuses on the second legions invasion of South West england, Vespasian's boys have to tackle the massive British hill forts amp contend with a extreme Druid sect aAd version of Al Que'da who have taken the Roman General's wife amp children hostage amp are threatening to burn them alive.
The battle scenes especially are worthy of Bernard Cornwell, If you haven't tried this series do it now, Parm This is the third book in the series, Audible did not have book two available, The year isAD during the Roman invasion of Britain, This is a historical military novel about two soldiers Macro and Cato of the Roman Second Legion.


A sudden storm strikes the Roman fleet bringing food, supplies, reinforcements and the wife, Lady Pomponia, and children of commanding General Plautus.
The lead ship with Lady Pomponia aboard is driven off course before crashing against the rocks while attempting to beach the ship.
The family is captured by the Druids, The Druids are attempting to exchange the Generals family for a number of captured Druids, Macro and Cato are sent to free the Generals family,

The book is well written and the plot is strong, Scarrow has some dramatic battle scenes along with lots of action, A major battle is fought at Camulodunum or what is modern day Colchester, The author also provides insight into the soldiers life in the Roman Legion, Scarrow also provides some information about Celtic culture and religion as well as information about the Druids.
I am not an expert about this time frame in history so cannot say how accurate Scarrow is in the historical information.
I did note two items, first, he said the ships had slave chained to the oars, I know this is inaccurate as the Romans only had free men on the oars of ships.
The second item he gives the impression the Druids are a tribe and the Celts are a tribe.
It is my understanding that the Druids were the educated class of the Celtic peoples not a separate tribe of people.
The book is easy to read and is a real page turner, David Thorpe does an excellent job narrating the book,

I love the way that Scarrow ties in just the right amount of historical fact with creative license to ensure that the readers are left breathlessly waiting for more and to see what happens next.
This book introduces Boudica, which fans of Roman or British history should recognize from the name alone and if you don't.
. . well, GTS Google that shit,

This, book three, was probably my favorite of the series so far, There was just the right combination of set piece large battles between Roman legions and barbarian forces and commando style raids and missions in this book to mix it up a bit.
The heroes Macro and Cato are roughly used in this one and both left in hospital beds by the end of it but I seriously wouldn't have it any other way.
A book where the heroes escape unscathed grows tedious quickly,

I'll definitely be continuing on with this series as soon as I try to finish one other book that I was reading concurrently with this one.
If you are a fan of Roman history, historical fiction, or military fiction then this series is right up your alley.
Heck, I'm getting into it enough that I'm wanting to buy a damned Cold Steel Gladius again.
. . if only my wife would let me, .