Book Review: The Stars Undying, Emery Robin – scintilla.info

Book Review: The Stars Undying, Empire Without End Book 1, Emery Robin

Blog Tour November 18, 2022

Some debut novels have modest ambitions. Tell a story, explore some themes, draw some
characters, let it out into the world and hope it flies.

Then there are some debuts like The Stars Undying. Emery Robin takes inspiration from the history of the Roman Empire, Egypt’s Ptolemaic era, Shakespeare’s plays, and weaves an epic space opera with interstellar avatars of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Marc Antony, and Caesar Augustus. Robin may not quite reach Shakespearean prose, but the sweeping arc and tragic

rise and fall of the characters certainly show that the homework was done.