Book Blast: Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii by Vicky Alvear Shecter
Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii
Author: Vicky Alvear Shecter
Publication Date: May 27,
2014
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Genre: YA Historical
Pages: 336
Synopsis: When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto?
TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life
healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in
the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.
LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her
father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural
world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd
occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the
air...
When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with
their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape
from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them -- to Lucia's
father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the
first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before
the volcano destroys their whole world?
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About the Author
Vicky Alvear Shecter is the author of the young adult
novel, CLEOPATRA'S MOON (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2011), based on the life
of Cleopatra's only daughter. She is also the author of two award-winning
biographies for kids on Alexander the Great and Cleopatra. She is a docent at the
Michael C. Carlos Museum of Antiquities at Emory University in Atlanta.
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It could be fun. I visited Pompeii many years ago - not that I expect to recognize much, but one never knows. I can understand, though, how the ruins can give birth to exciting, possible stories.
ReplyDeleteThanks. It sounds like an interesting story.
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