jmwriting's Full Review: M. T. Anderson - The Astonishing Life of Octavian ...
The book is oddly fascinating. From the scholars who have raised Octavian, to the background of his mother's and his own origin's, up to the fact that the scholars have no names and have been replaced with numbers, is truly and utterly amazing. It's just so amazing that someone could come up with content like this and manage to write it so well. Five/Five stars because the book seemed so surreal and magical, yet so realistic because it could have happened at one point (yet the chances slim). Simply stunning. At a lack for words.
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