Review: Ancient Egytian vacation
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2012
The first few chapters of this book are slow.  I don't understand why Tim cares about two missing strangers but PLEASE keep reading the book because you will be rewarded.  The author really hits his stride when the strangers "cross over" to ancient Egypt.  Character development is excellent and you will feel like you can go spend time with these people and you will know them.  The descriptions of the landscape pre-pyramids is amazing.  You can feel the breeze, hear the birds, smell the aroma of the richly seasoned food.  You really get a true sense of the life of someone in Egypt 5,000 years ago.  The Gods they worshipped and some of rituals they practiced are explained in exquisite detail - the author really did his homework and it shows.  I love the part of the book where Tim is searching for Imhotep, the great architect of the pyramids, and realizes he is searching for himself!I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 because of the few slow chapters in the beginning and because - this isn't a shot at the author because this seems to be an issue with e-books in general - in addition to spelling errors which I can overlook, the "grammar" errors took me out of ancient Egypt and dropped me in the middle of Times Square. Some of them are very jarring.At any rate, this book is really magical. I felt like I took a week-long vacation in ancient Egypt.