Rage Against the Dying Light By Jan Surasky
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Rage From the Dying Light, by award winning author Jan Surasky, is really a brilliantly written novel about Boudicca, Britain's legendary warrior queen. Boudicca led a fierce and vengeful Celtic rebellion up against the Roman Empire through the first century. As the Romans fought for greed, she fought on her behalf country, her freedom as well as avenge her young daughters violated by Roman soldiers whenever they swarmed her palace to overtake the Iceni kingdom.
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Born an aristocrat in the Coritani Tribe, Boudicca is a princess destined to become a queen. As being a young girl she prepares on her duty. She learns well a brief history, the culture and the traditions in the Celtic tribes. She also enjoys her childhood playing Tag and Run and Hide the Boar's Tooth along with her brother. She gathers violets for Beltane, the Spring Rites Festival. It's her favorite festival. She plays with friends around the beautiful countryside overlooking the Devon River that runs right down to the North Sea. Boudicca spends time among the oak trees within the Sacred Grove and ponders life, religious rites and omens. She watches for the signs of the hare to foretell the way forward for the Celtic Race. Before Boudicca was actually a queen, a wife, as well as a mother, she was actually a carefree princess of royal descent, loyal to her country and proud of her ancestors' undefeated legacy and freedom. Afterwards, her vengeful rebellion toward the Romans will serve to make her a monumental figure of British History.
Boudicca marries the powerful King Prasutagus of the Iceni Tribe. They like a bountiful royal life and therefore are blessed with two daughters. Rules his kingdom independent of the Roman tyranny imposed on other Celtic tribes, even though prasutagus has formed a loose alliance with Rome as a client king who answers to them. A hundred years has passed since Julius Caesar conquered Gaul and attacked the Celtic mountain tribes of Germania: Boudicca's flaming haired ancestors. Caesar had vowed to conquer all of the barbaric tribes from the British Isles. After Tiberius, the mad Emperor, Caligula, reigned for a while then Claudius makes power. Claudius as well as the Roman Senate desire to finish what Caesar started almost a hundred in the past: conquer most of Britain! Each year more tribes fit into Roman rule because the empire expands. Boudicca takes quiet notice.
After a long illness, Prasutagus dies and leaves half his kingdom for the Emperor of Rome as well as the other half to his daughters. He believed they might be permitted to rule their kingdom and are now living in peace. Prasutagus was wrong. Bit of time passed before Roman soldiers overtake the palace and enslave the royal family. Queen Boudicca is humiliated, severely beaten using a whip and her daughters are brutally raped by Roman soldiers. It's a vicious attack and seems a sacrilegious insult for the Iceni Tribe as well as their Gods. Betrayed and outraged, Boudicca, barely recovered, declares war! She gathers tens of thousands of Celtic warriors who resent oppression from Rome without any longer wish to live like Roman pawns. Their bloody rebellion can last for months since they sack and defeat three major strongholds of Rome. Londinium (ancient name for London), Verulamium (ancient good name for St. Albans), and Camulodunum (ancient term for Colchester), are leveled and burned to the floor. Boudicca is remembered as Britain's first heroine, an effective queen with flaming red hair, ready to fight to her death.
Rage From the Dying Light is written from the Celtic view verses the conventional Roman accounts of Boudicca, unsympathetic to her cause. In this particular historical fiction, Boudicca's early years and motivations for her uprising visit vivid life winning, author Jan Surasky, the Eric Hoffer Award for Commercial Fiction as acknowledged in the US Review of Books. This sensational story will speak with anybody who enjoys past and historical fiction. And, it can speak, especially, to the people who love history's female heroines that are awe-inspiring, in their time and in ours, since this book is very popular! Jan Surasky is really a seasoned author and entertainment writer who currently is writing her next novel, To Jerusalem.