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    Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire
    Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire
    Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire
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    Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire

    By Antoinette May

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    A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young woman she becomes, and Claudia finds her way into his arms by means of a mysterious ancient magic. Pilate is her grand destiny, leading her to Judaea and plunging her into a seething cauldron of open rebellion. But following her friend Miriam of Magdala's confession of her ecstatic love for a charismatic religious radical, Claudia begins to experience terrifying visions—horrific premonitions of war, injustice, untold devastation and damnation . . . and the crucifixion of a divine martyr whom she must do everything in her power to save.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061870743
    Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire
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    Antoinette May

    Antoinette May is the author of Pilate's Wife and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Adventures of a Psychic. An award-winning travel writer specializing in Mexico, May divides her time between Palo Alto and a home in the Sierra foothills.

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    • 3/5
      I'm kind of surprised by all the vitriol for this book. I think it's silly to be totally enraged that a piece of historical fiction with a totally invented character isn't 100% accurate.

      Anyway, I feel like parts of this book were great and parts were really weak. The main character, Claudia, has prophetic visions that she can't control. Once she gets to be about 14, the visions barely get mentioned. They do come up, but not nearly as often, to the point where I wondered for a while if the author had just forgotten about that aspect.

      It was also kind of silly that Claudia fell desperately in love with Pilate, to the point of using a spell on him, and then she I guess falls out of love with him even though it's clear he's actually quite fond of her (staying married to her even though he could've divorced her like 4 different times), and then she has an affair with some other guy. I mean, it's silly that her character did that, but it's interesting writing. The really silly thing is the guy she has an affair with is totally boring. She keeps talking about being so totally in love with him, and that she has NOTHING without him, but he has almost no personality and they have no real interactions besides him thanking her and then they have sex and a bath. It just got more and more annoying to read her pining after this guy who's said and done nothing particularly interesting, and then her wasting away because she has nothing without him, forgetting her child, her wealth, her position, and her husband who loves and respects her.

      My main complaint is the number of typos in this book, though! That's certainly not the author's fault. The editors and publishers are supposed to catch the typos and correct them. But there's just an absurd amount of typos. One or two in a professionally published book, fine. But there's at least 10! Things like verb tenses being wrong, incorrect pluralizations, and spelling character names wrong - there's a character named Holtan whose name is spelled Holton at least once. It's quite annoying.

      Overall, I enjoyed the book, but the main character got on my nerves the longer the book went on. If you're a huge history buff who gets annoyed by things being wrong, steer clear of this book - a few pieces of historical timeline are off a bit, and things like them giving the "thumbs up" to save a gladiator when historians are pretty sure thumbs down meant to save them. It didn't bother me at all, but from the other reviews, clearly some people are just utterly enraged by that kind of thing.

    • 4/5
      Pilate's Wife has some real promise. I was intrigued by Claudia's character and her "visions" which predicted Jesus' death. Her life was extremely interesting and tragic. I might have scored it 4 1/2 or 5 stars if she hadn't taken liberties by writing that Miriam (Mary Magdalene) and Jesus got married. Otherwise an interesting book when kept me reading.
    • 5/5
      A fascinating account of Mary Magdalene, her relationship with Jesus and the control of the Roman Empire.
    • 4/5
      Exellent book about the corruption of the Roman Empire, a girl that would do anything for the man she desires and the man that made the decision that he know in the world about. It is a fictional historical book that is rivating and shows Pilate as a man that would do anything to rise himself in a corrupt worls.
    • 4/5
      I love historical ancient Rome novels. I particularly enjoyed this book's reinterpretation of the Christian version of Jesus's death and the distortion throughout the centuries of the Bible and history. I was obsessed with Dan Brown's The DaVinci Codes and went into a buying mode of every book I could get my hands on about his theory.

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