Eagle of the Ninth

[ricardienne]

...I still don't know how I didn't read Rosemary Sutcliff's Eagle of the Ninth before. It is my favorite kind of old-fashioned (or new-fashioned) children's story: all about epic friendship and undying loyalty across a slightly uncomfortable status divide.* Marcus, young, painfully upright Roman centurion badly wounded in his second year of

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[charlie_ego]

I KNOOOOOW, RIGHT? I just read these in the last year or so, and was like, WHERE HAVE THESE BEEN ALL MY LIFE. (Sitting at the library. I know.) Trust, loyalty, friendship, all my kinks!

Oh, please write fic, I would love that! (um, although I might need a translation if it's in Latin, that sounds marvelous!)

[ricardienne]

RIGHT? How did I read so much historical fiction as a kid and never read Sutcliff? (PS I've also been reading Mary Renault for the first time: AMAZING.)