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It is a story about a Roman soldier, Marcus Lucius, son of the great warrior Maximus, who protects his friends (Appius, Octavian) and falls in love in Julia Fabia, while he is on the way to revenge his killed wife, Decima. It’s a story with many risky actions, intrigues and it’s about friendship, loyalty and of course love. It’s set in the times of the emperor Hadrian.

Review by Emilia Wagner (2013) :
I read it and I liked it a lot, but LOVEFOOL Saga is for me even better. What I was surprised of was the end. There was a lot of action, mysteries and intrigues. I loved it. I was like the BBC series about the emperor Claudius. I think everybody would be pleased to see it as a movie (like Gladiator with Russel Crowe) or a series. It’s very good written, fluently and lyrically. I loved the battle scene. It was impressive! It sounded like music! Like a symphony! Awesome! There is a lot of historical background, but it’s not depressing.

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It was like a fortune cookie

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After Marcus Lucius was done with the check, he helped her to cover in the warm and cosy materials. Her skin was already cold and it felt unpleasant, because he knew what risks were combined with it. He could stay outside without even proper clothes, but he would easily survive it. He was a trained, healthy man. She was a weak woman on the road to get healthy. She trembled. He wanted to call slaves to make the fire in the fireplace bigger. Julia held him off with a gentle gesture. She simply laid her hand on his shoulder and he didn’t say anything. Instead, he slipped under the blanket to warm her up. He laid down next to her and closed his eyes. He was tired due to the restless night and the emotions he experienced lately. He promptly felt asleep. He didn’t want to think over what Octavian said. He didn’t want to go through the letter from Appius that he read already the day before. Appius sent no supportive news. Situation changed extremely since Octavian left and Appius wasn’t able to predefine anything. The short message suggested to hold on to the strategy they have chosen, to accept the facts he knew and could derive and to decide wisely how to play the game to save lives of people, who were involved into the game. There were no specific suggestions and no pragmatic advices. Marcus Lucius was on his own. There was no word about Julia. Nobody was mentioned and the entire message sounded like a praying of a priest. It was general and could suit to everyone’s problem. It was like a fortune cookie. Marcus Lucius didn’t show his disappointment. People around him expected he got a piece of wisdom and he needed to keep their hopes alive. Instead of thinking about such endless, unsolvable matters, he felt asleep. His head landed on Julia’s thighs as in the night. His arm cuddled her waist. His arm fell down on her legs as well as his stage of sleep changed.

Walk proudly

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While returning to the tent, where the soldiers were sleeping, Marcus Lucius didn’t expect his father talking with him. However, Maximus didn’t keep silence. He walked proudly, made big, self-conscious steps, and talked with his engaging, manly voice:

-Stay focussed. Don’t let anyone or anything distract you. You fought well, even if you lost. You can learn more from one lose than from thousand victories. You have to stay focussed more next time.

Marcus Lucius nodded with understanding and enjoyed the short personal contact to his father. Some days later, his father appeared again at the end of the training and slapped him friendly on the back.

-Stay focussed, my boy. – He repeated and Marcus Lucius was sure that he won’t hear anything else from his father.

-How do you do it? – He asked then and Maximus laughed with joy.

-That’s a good question. – He said. – Life never asks us whether we are prepared or not, whether we’re old enough or not. You have to stay focussed on what you want to achieve and keep going in this direction. You should notice the surrounding to analyse the risk or danger coming towards you, but you can’t lose the goal in front of your eyes. Stay watchful. Stay focussed. Dare to do what you want.

-So why do I have to be prepared, if life brings surprises then?

Maximus laughed even louder.

Foot detail of Artemis of the Rospigliosi type. Marble, Roman artwork of the Imperial Era

Pompeii, Italy

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Marcus Lucius was not able to get to know any information neither about Mayon Volcano nor Mount Pelée. He was a Roman soldier, a tribune in the most powerful army of the world of that time. He had heard about the city of Pompeii being partially destroyed and buried under meters of ashes and pumices in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. He was like a volcano himself. His internal, dark energy was dangerously coming out from the deepest parts of his body, passing the crust of his skin, allowing accusations hot as magma, fussy, obtrusive reproaches and blames like volcanic ashes escaping from below the surface. He could not bear his internal pressure anymore. In the same way that the pieces of matter were collected for a longer while in the inside of the volcanoes before erupting violently, when the time was ripe, flying over chaotically, powerfully and frightening, the same way Marcus Lucius felt, when he remembered what happened some days ago. He felt the same increasing, overwhelming rage and lack of power to predict what was already going to happen. He analysed over and over again which signs he missed, what aspects he could have overseen, what he could have deduced earlier to prevent the damages that were done.

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Roman Baths, England

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She didn’t die until dinner time and noticed someone coming into the room unexpectedly. By reflex, she covered her arm with a part of her dress and waited to see who interrupted her silence. It was Chloe, bringing the dinner. Chloe wanted to enkindle the fireplace, but Julia sent the slave back. A fire would ruin the cold mood fulfilling the room. It was much easier to take a bath in depressive, pessimistic thoughts when it was freezing. A warm, cosy fire could make Julia think about other issues and she wanted to stay in the zone of shadows and coldness. The slave disappeared quickly, quietly. Julia kept sitting in her place and could not decide if she would have to cut herself again or stand up and wait for what would happen to her next. She wondered that Cornelius didn’t appear as he promised. It wasn’t really important. It meant that he simply forgot her, as everybody else. For her, it was another sign that the world didn’t need her. It confirmed her in her opinion that she has chosen the right direction.

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Sample from Vengeance and Remission about losing someone you love

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It wasn’t like losing your favourite book, which you had borrowed to someone, who never gave it back to you, or like deleting an important file from a computer. We would consider these disasters as Armageddon in our times. But today, you can backup your files, buy new computer, or even create everything anew in the worst case. We forget that we can lose more valuable things that give sense to our life: a best friend by not liking his new girlfriend, a grandfather after he lost his battle with cancer, a father in a car crash on a busy street, a mother through the consequences of a accident at home or the person you are in love with through various reasons in general.

Marcus Lucius loss was irreplaceable, unrecoverable. He had lost his wife. If a person you love dies, the entire world is not the same place anymore. You can’t restore the living creation – neither by memorizing nor by replacing the person with other people. There is no remedy to return to the world experienced before.

Sometimes, you think about dying and losing your life, but you don’t really follow it seriously, until you lose someone you love. Death was his companion already. He had already lost many soldiers on his way. He took part in a dozen of ambushes and he saw many deadly wounded and killed. He was injured once, too, but it wasn’t serious. In the end, he survived. Now, he wanted to be dead, but there was no battle to die in honour. There was even no real, probable perspective for a battle. There were only chances for living the sad, miserable life with no goal.

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Some thoughts from the mail about the book – written by Brian

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I liked that it wasn’t just a love story. I loved the friendship issues: friendship between lovers (Marcus Lucius and Decima, Marcus Lucius and Julia, friendship between men, different kinds of relationships between people (among all Julia Nerva, Julia Appius, Julia Octavian, emperor Hadrian Appius, emperor Hadrian Pompeius, Appius Maxentius, Julia Maxentius, Pompeius Marcus Lucius.

There is Nerva, who is like brother to Marcus Lucius and to Julia Fabia, but it wasn’t that way from the very beginning. There is Octavian, who acts like the older brother sometimes, but then, he steps back. There is Appius, who could be father to Marcus Lucius, but who acts like an adult friend. Then again Appius was the best friend of Marcus Lucius’s father. Comparing how the friendship between Marcus Lucius and Nerva developed and how Appius and Maximus developed was interesting. Then again you have the struggles and decisions of what is more important: loyalty to your friends or people you care or loyalty to the state and your boss (the emperor and empire in that you believe in as a good soldier). I think it’s a kind of similar struggle that we can experience today.

I also liked the landscapes and English issues. The descriptions were stunning. Lovely langauge and still simple.

Some thoughts from the mail about the book – written by Colleen

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I loved that she took every struggle to protect her friends and that she listened to her heart. It was totally sweet, even though she made me nervous at times. The characters were fabulous, quirky, fun, and totally realistic people tha could live at that time. This book was about straight characters, learning to do life as grownups. They’re not perfect and make mistakes, they don’t always trust each other, but they learn how to rely on proper people. It was refreshing. I read it in one night. I love it, love it, love it.

Some thoughts from the mail about the book – written by Kateryna

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This was a story about a man, who fell in love twice, but who apparently loved just once. It was interesting to follow how his feelings developed from a fascination and memories about his wife and the time spent with the new woman in his life. It was fascinating to read, but i didn’t get the point when he really was sure about his strong feelings for Julia Fabia. I think she was simply destination of Marcus Lucius, but I am not sure if Marcus Lucius would fall in love for her so quickly, if she would look differently.

Some thoughts from the mail about the book – written by Jenny

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This was a sweet story about a young woman that stays true to her heart and tries to be strong in the men’s world. She doesn’t always know what she wants, because she isn’t certain what her future looks like or when the consequences of her actions should happen. She conveys good feelings to her surrounding and she has to chose with purpose which way she follows. She definitely doesn’t suit to the scheme of a woman that lives in the Ancient Rome. She doesn’t plan intrigues, but she has to escape from some intrigues. I liked the scene when she meets the cruel pimp, when Nerva didn’t explain her how dangerous the situation really was.