The Ends of the Earth

by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Reviewed by Coral

Reiterating all of my many complaints about this series seems redundant at this point. I will summarize by saying that none of them got better (except I don’t think there were any typos in this book).

I stuck with the series to see how Hephaestion’s death was handled, but really shouldn’t have bothered.

There were parts of the book (and the series, truthfully) that made Hephaestion seem like an idiot, at the expense of propping up/extolling the virtues of other characters.

And the history was dreadful. Stateira was not Alexander’s first wife, but his second. He also didn’t marry a third wife named Barsine (not the same character as Memnon’s wife) but one of Stateira’s cousins, Parysatis.

I skimmed most of this book and yet I still hated it. A lot.

 Grade: F