The Wolf Den is a novel set in ancient Pompeii. Amara is a Greek woman who was sold by her family to be a house slave and has ended up as a prostitute in a brothel. We get to see the realities of how women were treated in those times and how the craftiest ones could find ways to slip into a slightly better life for themselves. But the truth of the reality of women of the age. Nothing new here if you’ve read other works about the time, but there is the shock value of the brothel setting and the brutality there. If it’s your first snapshot of this time, it’s an aggressive place to start.
This one is just a slightly cruder version of Kate Quinn’s The Mistress of Rome. Read if you enjoyed The Silence of the Girls or A Thousand Ships. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thanks to Netgalley for approval to read this one, although I had purchased a copy before I received that approval. All opinions above are my own.
Is there a period of time in history that you feel like you’ve read about extensively?
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