I knew that we would see some of these characters again as we moved later into the series! And I’m so glad that we do see them again because it all adds so much to the story and to the relationships between the different characters. Especially when it comes to Jonathan and Mordecai as they spend their time in Rome not too far away from Susannah.

These stories are so well researched and crafted that you almost don’t realise that the majority of the people you are reading about actually didn’t exist, and that those that did exist are in the minority of characters. It makes them so much easier to read.

And I’m also learning so much about Jewish history which I wasn’t expecting to. And the relationship between the Romans and the Jewish people following the sack of Jerusalem.