The details that I can verify such as Roman cookery, feast presentation, or things based on Archaeological digs, are derived from real information. So how is this a strength? The research that has gone into the novel is stupendous the characters are hard to follow because they are called by accurate names and titles for the Byzantine Empire at that place and time. This means that put the book down for a day, and when you pick it up you cannot figure out who some of the characters are and you have to back-read to catch up. The biggest (compound) flaw actually derives from a main strength of the novel the plot is too complicated, there are too many characters with too many sub-plots and this causes the story to move way too slowly.
I read a lot of books in the ‘epic’ style of the seventies but I was never a complete fan of the genera. I would not normally rate high a book that took that long to read or which I had considered putting down unfinished.īyzantium is copyrighted in the 1980’s, I would guess that it was written in the 70’s because it has that “epic” style of writing that was common at the time. Honestly, I may never have finished it if it did not relate so very specifically to my historical re-enactment group. It took me a long time to read this book months where I would normally I get through a good book in days. I have struggled to decide how to rate this book quite a bit and have rated it high despite a few quite integral flaws
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