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Review title: too much work for such little payback
Product review: This book is written with alternating sections set in ancient Egypt and the present. It's very hard to keep track of the Egyptian characters because you don't constantly read about them and they call each other by nicknames. (Too much work.) Also, it's pretty hard to care about the female character in the past when it's obvious by her mummy in the present that she dies a gruesome death--you know this by page 75 or so! So immediately you distance yourself from her because you know she's going to be killed. (Too much work.) It also bothered me that the author decided Nefertiti was a horrible person. I eventually gave up and just read the "present" chapters about the medical illustrator and the doctor... and was still frustrated, because they missed a lot of obvious things. The only interesting part was the actual archaeological practices. If you like Lynda S. Robinson and Laura Haney, stick with them and give this a miss.
