Review: Hot Tattooed Hero, Real Egyptian Gods
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2013
4.5 stars. In ancient Egypt, the gods are real. They can take over a human's body, or they can form from mist, and they DO have power.Lady Tiya is from an ancient line of people bound to the service of the goddess Nephthys. Since a bizarre ruler has taken over the Viper Nome (a kind of province), the only hope of the gods for the future of Egypt is to sneak in, using Lady Tiya's body, and to use her - and her bodyguard, Khenet, to defeat the threat, even if the most likely outcome is the death of both Khenet and Tiya.Along the journey down (up?) the Nile, Khenet and Tiya fall in love. While they recognize the need to defeat the Normarch of the Viper Nome, even if it costs their own lives. Not surprisingly, they'd prefer to live, and love.Khenet is a not-untypical romance alpha male, complete with sexy bod and even tattoos, but he's also tender and considerate to a girl with a migraine. Tiya is beautiful, brave, smart and resourceful without going all Lara Croft action heroine. She has her own ways of being heroic, which I appreciated.Love the coming-to-life of goddesses/gods Nephthys (no, I never heard of her before, either), Isis, and Horus. The ship cat on the Water Horse. The danger of crocodiles, and the scent of lotus flower. This novella really transports the reader to a world not frequently visited, in romance or other fiction.