Aurelia Mitela is a mother and a soldier in Roma Nova, what remains of the Roman Empire in an alternate timeline. She loves her job and her family, but an accident forces her to leave her job and take the reins of her family. Once settled into her new role, the Empress of Roma Nova offers her a temporary assignment as a diplomat in Berlin, where, through her family connections, she will have to investigate on a delicate matter. Many things will happen in Berlin, good and bad. Plot twist after plot twist, Alison Morton takes the readers to the final pages without disappointing them.
As an alternate history novel, Aurelia by Alison Morton throws the reader into a dimension where the roman culture never died. The story takes place in Roma Nova in an alternate timeline where the Roman Empire didn’t fall. Roma Nova citizens though, live in a modern era, like ours. They drive cars, fly planes, and misbehave like we do. In this alternate timeline women are not second citizens, but rule like men. and they do it in a matriarchal society. I love books with strong women, but where the female character is not a man with a woman's name. Ms Morton knows how to write a woman lead character without falling into the trap of making her a male character with a woman’s name. The book is in first person, therefore we see the story through Aurelia's eyes and only hers. This is a style I usually dislike, but Alison Morton has mastered it. All in all, I loved this book.
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