Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire
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A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young woman she becomes, and Claudia finds her way into his arms by means of a mysterious ancient magic. Pilate is her grand destiny, leading her to Judaea and plunging her into a seething cauldron of open rebellion. But following her friend Miriam of Magdala's confession of her ecstatic love for a charismatic religious radical, Claudia begins to experience terrifying visions—horrific premonitions of war, injustice, untold devastation and damnation . . . and the crucifixion of a divine martyr whom she must do everything in her power to save.
Antoinette May
Antoinette May is the author of Pilate's Wife and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Adventures of a Psychic. An award-winning travel writer specializing in Mexico, May divides her time between Palo Alto and a home in the Sierra foothills.
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Reviews for Pilate's Wife
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pilate's Wife has some real promise. I was intrigued by Claudia's character and her "visions" which predicted Jesus' death. Her life was extremely interesting and tragic. I might have scored it 4 1/2 or 5 stars if she hadn't taken liberties by writing that Miriam (Mary Magdalene) and Jesus got married. Otherwise an interesting book when kept me reading.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Claudia, a young woman from a wealthy family in Ancient Rome, grows up amidst the swirling politics of the Emperor Tiberius, to whom she is distantly related. From a young age, she possesses a second sight, in which she sees and dreams of things that have not yet happened - sometimes tiny inconsequential details, other times things that will have a profound impact on her life, the lives of others, and on history itself. She is eventually married to a handsome man named Pontius Pilate, with whom she shares a complex relationship of separation and closeness. Eventually, she befriends a courtesan named Mary Magdalene, who has fallen in love with a radical Jewish man. I enjoyed this vivid book very much, and Claudia was a heroine and narrator that I grew to love. Her visions were interesting, though never taking up too much of the story to let it begin veering into the historical fantasy genre. I love Ancient Rome, and this book gives the reader a wonderful feeling for the time period and the setting. Claudia's father is in the ever-traveling army, and after she marries Pilate, the couple move around quite a bit, so we get to see not only Rome itself but a great deal of the vast Roman Empire. The integration of the biblical story of Jesus was an interesting one, and a curious (if not new) twist on the subject. Mary Magdalene actually had a character, unlike some other books I have read where she is nothing but a hollow 'that woman from the Bible' shell. Jesus, who is here called Yeshua, was not mentioned all that much, but he and Mary and apparently in love, and engaged to be married.At times, I felt that the whole Jesus plot felt a bit out of place, however. After all, it only becomes part of the story much later in the book, and the weight that May seems to want to write into it didn't entirely come through for me, as if the author was trying to introduce a brand new, but extremely significant, plot line right at the end of the book.Claudia sees visions about Yeshua being a king, and being holy, but the author avoids depicting him as God or a human man, rather letting the reader interpret for themselves whatever they wish. Claudia's relationship with Holtan, a gladiator whom she prophesied about as a younger girl, annoyed me. I could feel no sympathy for the couple, rather siding with Pilate, and wishing that Claudia would only try to work on her bond with her husband instead. Overall, this was a very good book, especially in the beginning. Toward the end, what with the Mary Magdalene / Yeshua story abruptly being shoved forward, and Holtan, I cannot say that I enjoyed it quite so much, but this is still a book I would recommend.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A fascinating account of Mary Magdalene, her relationship with Jesus and the control of the Roman Empire.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Exellent book about the corruption of the Roman Empire, a girl that would do anything for the man she desires and the man that made the decision that he know in the world about. It is a fictional historical book that is rivating and shows Pilate as a man that would do anything to rise himself in a corrupt worls.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I love historical ancient Rome novels. I particularly enjoyed this book's reinterpretation of the Christian version of Jesus's death and the distortion throughout the centuries of the Bible and history. I was obsessed with Dan Brown's The DaVinci Codes and went into a buying mode of every book I could get my hands on about his theory.