Nefertiti: A Novel
- ISBN13: 9780307381743
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product DescriptionA National Bestseller!“Meticulously researched and richly detailed . . . an engrossing tribute to one of the most powerful and alluring women in history. ” –Boston GlobeNefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries. Ambitious, charismatic, and beautiful, Nefertiti is destined to marry Amunhotep, an unstable young pharaoh. It is hoped that her . . . More >>
It was an interesting take on Egyptian history at the time of Amarna, but I really did not feel compelled to pick the book up and keep reading. I had to force myself, although the story did get a little more interesting in the second half of the book. It felt like a soap opera. There is something lacking in the book–richness of character or scene depiction? I don’t know. I did enjoy it but would never call it a favorite.
Rating: 3 / 5
I love anything about ancient egypt, but felt this was a similar tale of two sisters, that could have been staged in any court time period in history. I would regularly have to remind myself what historical time it was set in. A nice read, but not a must.
Rating: 3 / 5
I didn’t care for this book at all. It’s very difficult to enjoy a book with so few sympathetic characters. Moran’s Nefertiti is a completely selfish and manipulative woman with few, if any, redeeming traits. And her sister, from whose point of view the story is told, is not much more sympathetic. Though kinder by far, I can’t admire how she continually abases herself in service to Nefertiti’s selfishness. Each turn of the page left me wanting to slap one or both of them, as well as almost every other female character other than the Dowager Tiye. Meh.
Rating: 2 / 5
I normally like historical fiction, it’s informative and entertaining, but this is just awful. The characters lack depth, are predictable, and it’s downright boring. How this ever got on a bestsellers list is beyond me, the author goes back to the same lines over and over.
Nefertiti is mad so she juts her chin out, Mutny runs to her garden, and Akhenaten storms out of the room. . . . . Nefertiti whines, Mutny forgives her, she wears a gold dress and Akhenaten is so taken with her beauty that he forgives her and is under her spell again. Over and Over and Over.
There, I just saved you $16. 95.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book was very tedious. There were few tasty historical details and you could predict what every character would do and say from a mile off. This book was so bad, I almost feel mean-spirited ripping it up. It kinda feels like I’m kicking something that’s already lying there dead in the dirt. I sped-read the last half of it . . . when something’s written with a middle-school level vocabulary, that’s easy enough to do. I didn’t want to spend any more time with those paperdoll characters than I had to, although I will admit I was a little curious about how Moran would tie the whole thing up. SPOIL ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: So I’m leafing through the pages of endless tripe when suddenly someone is stabbing Nefertiti! Only it wasn’t that exciting because the murder was over as soon as it started. (Apparently Nefertiti didn’t put up much of a fight. The character was so bored with her fictitious existence she embraced the writing of her undoing as an act of mercy!) And then the whole kingdom crumbles, victim to the blank plague (which I thought was more of a middle ages thing?) So Michelle Moran hastily kills off the imbecilic crew: I guess she was just as bored with her frivolous yarn as I was.
Rating: 1 / 5