The book’s motive force is her character - sassy, lippy, honest, and brave - at odds with the degraded values of a nation of which she becomes Empress. I delayed reading this book due to the events; prostitution, sexual abuse to children and physical abuse to woman. Let me start by saying I discovered this book on TikTok as I imagine many others have , I was intrigued by the premise of a modern Roman Empire.

I personally found this scene unnecessary and nearly deleted the book from my Nook before continuing on.

At the crossroads of her life, only one power set Mary free and gave her a lifetime of love and hope. But, none the less, the pain and heartache represented between the pages of Divine occur in real life more than we'd like to think possible. A few inconsistencies caught my attention too, Electa gets her face beat in within the first 5% (in this household, we support Magnus and his decision to pummel Electa), and references that something broke when she was hit in the face…yet when she goes home to her father and her brother, they pass no comment on the fact her nose is probably sideways?

A group the MC is up against who are more likely to win because they’re Patricians (*cough* careers)? Her latest client is Emma Johnson, a young mother who’s been badly abused by her boyfriend and has nowhere else to turn. Reading this as someone who isn’t up to speed on the fall of the Roman Empire, I wasn’t just gripped by the twists and turns throughout but also found a love for history, a subject at school that had definitely never interested me!As Mary relates her story to Emma, she hopes that Emma will see herself in it and gradually come to the realization that God can rescue her, too. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.