The battle scenes, though mercifully infrequent, don't leave much to the imagination and describe the clashes between the tribes and the Romans in all their noisy, violent detail I could almost hear the Britons' war cries and ringing of swords and smell the air heavy with the metallic scent of blood, the passages propelling me along and leaving me virtually breathless and exhausted. I felt as if I was right there, in the dense green Catuvellaun forests, the wind-swept hills of Brigantia, or the majestic but barren mountains of the west, sharing the freedom fighters' hardships and feeling their pain.
The last 100 pages are about Boudicca's struggles against alien superiority, and take part nearly twenty years after the Roman invasion.The book's sense of time and place is wonderful and the reader is swept along by the ancient Britons' desperate, but ultimately futile fight for freedom against Roman domination. This epic novel mainly tells the story of Caradoc, the chief's son of the Catuvellauni, and his fight against the Roman invaders.
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