Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii

Written by:
Vicky Alvear Shecter
Narrated by:
Zach Villa , Marisol Ramirez

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
6
Narrator
2
Release Date
June 2014
Duration
8 hours 57 minutes
Summary
When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto?

TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air. . . . When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them -- to Lucia's father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?
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Ashley C.

The book wasn't horrible, but it definitely wasn't great either. The author needs to learn to vary their writing. Take a drink every time "he said" or "she said" was used to identify the speaker, and you'll be passed out by the beginning of chapter three. There's others instances of the author using one form of writing in excessive. Having a female narrator and a male narrator for each character wasn't the best idea, in my opinion. Each narrator gave the same characters different accents, which made it hard to recognize when a certain character was talking or if it was a new character coming into the story. Also having a male attempt a female voice was painful to hear. Both narrators made the main heroine sound like a twit.

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