Review: A little surprised at the 5 star reviews
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
I didn't enjoy the book thoroughly because I didn't realize I was reading the second book in a series. Though I had downloaded The Mummifier's Daughter also but I ended up reading this book first. And that was a mistake because I couldn't make sense of a lot of things. This, I think is an inherent flaw in the book. A book shouldn't leave a reader frustrated for want of answers. And this is exactly how I felt (and this is a very different feeling from "wanting more!") Moreover the story was too presumptuous - a visitor, a girl being trusted by the Pharaoh and his queen, and called upon to attend to matters that concerned the state, was a bit too much to digest. The love-story angle was interesting but got boring due to repetition. After I finished this book, I tried reading the first one in the series and gave up after a few pages because of the same sickly sweet love-angle that seemed to dominate the start of the book.