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Title: Lifeless characters - interesting background detail
Review: Although I found that reading this book was useful in terms of obtaining interesting information about historical Egypt, the background of the Egyptian royal line and some information about battles of the time, the characters themselves were hardly captivating. None of the characters seemed real or alive and although the storyline itself was interesting, I did not feel drawn into their experiences in any way. The sexual descriptions were fairly graphic in a somewhat disturbing, rather than sensual, way and did little to add to the story except in terms of sensationalizing the "outrageous" behavior of the characters. The author is clearly not adept at writing from a female perspective, which seems necessary to carry off a work of this type.Overall I would not recommend reading this book.
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