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Can anyone help, please?
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@Linda: Thanks for sending me a review copy so I put it on amazon.de, amazon.co.uk and amazon.com. But I want to share it with the other bunch here as well:

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In the past few years gladiators became quite popular not only in movies and for reenactment groups but also novels dealing with gladiators were published. Some are dealing with female fighters since they are quite exotic in this male dominated world of the ludi and arenas.

The latest work dealing with a woman having to fight in the arena as a gladiatrix is by Linda Gruchy and is simply titled “Gladiatrix”. The author has done good research beforehand and therefore the book is not a fantasy but tries to stick to authentic gladiator gear and pairings but uses some literary liberty being well aware of this and doing this on purpose to spice up the story and keep the plot going.

The main charackter is a Celtic woman sentenced to fight in the arena as a gladiatrix. With hard training she learns to fight and has her first bout against a condemned criminal. It actually is true that tiro gladiators had to finish off the noxii to get used to killing people. Her next bouts are against men which was according to the scholars never happened in order to have equal chances for both gladiators thinking due to her physics the woman would be in a disadvantage fighting a man. But this spiced the story up.

Sometimes the story jumps a bit and I thought something got lost on my eBook Reader but that’s not the case.

Of course there are some intrigues, but also very interesting twists in the story, some for me very unexpected. The end is really something I haven’t thought about, very good!

A bit annoying when reading were some typos as well as misspellings of Latin terms.

Anyhow, this book is an entertaining read.
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