The Philosopher Prince by Paul Waters (historical fiction)

Since I enjoy this author and couldn't find the first book in the series, Cast Not the Day, I went ahead and jumped in to The Philosopher Prince.  Apparently Mr. Waters uses bisexual characters often, but I didn't think he handled it as well here as he did in The Republic of Vengeance.  Some of the love scenes between the two main characters were sappy.  On the other hand, I thought the book as a whole was very good, and gave a welcome new twist to characterizations of Julian "the Apostate."