The Last King of Lydia

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Regular readers of this blog will know I tend to only review books I have enjoyed and think other people will enjoy as well. It's intelligently written, often poetic, compelling and even though I knew the story of Croesus, it was full of surprises. On the surface, the book is an enjoyable adventure set in an ancient world, but the message of the book goes much deeper. Important events are seen from the perspective of unexpected characters which gives the book so much more depth.

Through Croesus's life he sees what his failings as king had been and humbly learns from Isocrates, formerly his slave in Sardis, now also slave to Cyrus.Set in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 6 th century BCE, this novel, as the name suggests, follows the life of Croesus (the last king of Lydia, in present-day Turkey).

She exploited the myth of Theseus to recreate an imagined bronze age Greece and she made use of the historical Alexander in a wonderful series of novels.We gradually see what sort of a man can vanquish so many, choose so many destructive wars, and also leave behind a written legacy of religious tolerance that still stands out in a narrow-minded world. Teetered between 4 and 5 but in the end concluded that the extra star was worth it for the originality.