![]() ![]() But, this book changed many of my predispositions, and stoked in me a new interest in the ancient world.One might think that a work of this caliber would require some knowledge of the history of this great civilization, but I knew nothing of the Hittites or their greatest King Suppiluliumas before reading this story.I didn’t need it.In this excellent work, the reader quickly becomes immersed in the world. Anyone with a penchant for historical fiction or fantasy fiction should find a reason to sit down, open this one up and throw themselves into it-body and soul.The ancient world is a time that has interested me in the past, but could never really lure me away from my deep love of history in feudal Asia and Europe. more f the year-and I read a lot of books. ![]() It could be-it should be-the greatest fiction-stories of historical, bigger than life figures that actually lived-people whose real lives are at least as interesting and filled with drama as Aragorn’s or Tywin Lannister’s or Luke Skywalker’s.I, the Sun is that story.This book is, far and away, my favorite book o. I love reading historical nonfiction and I itch to read fiction that can bring history to life. It is the mainstay of a class of fiction that is as prolific as it is average.And that is profoundly disappointing to me. A hundred romances set in medieval Scotland or Renaissance Italy, or Victorian England. Review 1: In this age of formula fiction and uber-mass market storytelling, historical fiction has become the instrument of the romance market. ![]()
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