From the iconic and bestselling author of The Mummy and The Vampire Chronicles, a mesmerizing, glamorous new tale of ancient feuds and modern passions. Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. … once-great Queen Cleopatra. Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. This is a figure who ruled over an ancient kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme knowledge of the deepest origins of the elixir of life. She may be the only one who can make known to Ramses and Cleopatra the key to their immortality—and the secrets of the miraculous, unknowable, endless expanse of the universe.
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Another reason Ms.Rice is on a different level. She must have super natural assistance.
Not Anne Rice ‘s best.
Good read but certainly not her best work.
It wasn’t as good as the first, but that may be because it wasn’t 100% Anne Rice on this one.
Those who like Anne Rice will like this book. I was disappointed it wasn’t a follow- up to her recent Lastat novels.
As always, Anne Rice is great, still great with her son, so he must be good too.
I loved this book. Anne Rice is an amazing author who knows how to create characters that stick with you. This is the first book that I have read by Christopher Rice so I can now say the same thing about him. I have loved Anne Rice ever since I was a young girl and saw the movie “Interview with a Vampire” I have then slowly started reading her novels. Each one of her novels makes you think. The Passion of Cleopatra is no different.
The characters in this book were well developed and the plot was well developed. It was great to see how the story unfolded and I was genuinely pleased with the twists and turns that were present.
I will say, this was a long book to read. I struggled a bit to read it simply because I had audiobooks I was also reading. Just because it took me a little over a month does not mean that I didn’t love the book. I just wanted to savour it.
All in all, I loved this book. It was beautifully written and had well developed characters that spoke to me as a reader. Hands down, this is a 5/5 star book!