This book has great historical and fantasy stories woven together - I really enjoyed Lion of Macedon until the last few chapters. I feel the story then really got caught up in the sorcery aspect and gave less to the historical/fantasy items that I like. I really did like the book and would give it a great review.The sorcery parts were well written, but I would have rather read more about how the armies were trained to fight like legionaries when they were really poor farmers.