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Title: disappointing resurrection
Review: Having lived in Upper Egypt in the late 80s, for more than a year, I am always a sucker for novels set there. Malarkey's book was big on the 'sucker' rating. Kind of a Zane Grey action romance, but low on action and romance. Some of the characters were starting out interesting but with no real depth revealed. Then there was the tourist description of Cairo and the Nile...The caricature of Christianity she kicks at seems to encompass all other expressions within her highly critical view of the Catholic Church hierarchy (a la Dan Brown). Did all these people go to bad Catholic high schools, or something? When I read the obvious historical error (p354), that Constantine [post 300AD] (after aligning himself with Christianity) wiped out the Jews in Palestine, I realized she really is mixed up on a lot of stuff. Jerusalem was destroyed in 70AD and the last Jewish-Roman war (Bar-Kokhba) was 135AD in Hadrian's reign.but good, mindless, summer reading...
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