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Very disappointing!! This could've been really great! Didn't enjoy this considering what a huge fan of Cleopatra, all things Egypt and Rome, and of vampires I am! Boring, and a bit cheesy. I had to stop reading towards the end. Could not get into it! Sorry, didn't do it for me :( very disappointed!
http://www.rantingdragon.com/queen-of...Next to my keyboard lies the book I just finished: Queen of Kings, the debut novel from Maria Dahvana Headley, author of The Year of Yes (a memoir of the year she spent saying yes to anyone who asked her out). Staring at me from the cover is a striking image of the Queen of Kings, Cleopatra, ruler of ancient Egypt.All of you have likely heard of Cleopatra, and many of you will probably love her like I do. Hers is a story that speaks to our imagination. It
Headley wrote THE MERE WIFE, one of my favorite reads from last year, and this book gives her a very real shot at being on the list for 2019, t00. It's an absolutely fantastic blend of history and fantasy. The vampire angle comes off feeling newer and fresher than I expected.
I really wanted to like this,but hard as I tried I just couldn't push my way through it
Not worth reading for either historical fiction fans or vampire novel fans. Odd, strangely boring mish-mash that still didn't seem to have any real action 20% of the way in. Didn't bother finishing.
Time of Death: 6:39 PM, Tuesday, June 4th, 2019.DNF. This isn’t bad. I just don’t want to read it anymore.In defense of the book: I was just expecting something different. Cleopatra turned out kind of whiny, and for that matter so did Augustus, which is the opposite of everything I loved about The Mere Wife. Maybe I’ll revisit this in the future, but for now I just have no desire to pick it back up, and it’s due back at the library soon.
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Maria Dahvana Headley’s book is something of a puzzle. When I first read the description of a historical novel in which a shape-shifting, vampire Cleopatra takes her revenge on Rome and Augustus, I was intrigued. The novel is divided up into three parts, and throughout the first portion in particular Headley does a good job of integrating fantasy with the actual history of the relationship between Rome and Egypt and Cleopatra, Antony, and Augustus (there is an appendix at the end of the book whe...
actual rating: 2.5I think this was more just a case of me expecting something different from this than what I actually got. I was *hoping* for a more 'coherent' [and, let's be real, less misogynistic] version of Queen of the Damned and while it was definitely less misogynistic I don't think it was that much more coherent [or maybe the characterization was just so bland that I kept zoning out only to realize I had no idea what I'd been reading for the past several minutes]. It was also a lot less...
The enduring love story of Anthony and Cleopatra has been retold many times throughout history. In Queen of Kings, Headley has given this famous tale a darker and more mythological twist. We join the lovers at the point in history when Octavian Caesar, great nephew of the late Julius, is camped outside the city of Alexandria. Octavian sends a false message to Cleopatra's beloved Anthony and he kills himself believing his queen has betrayed him. On discovering the deceit, Cleopatra is driven to m...
We've all heard the stories about the great love of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Well, that story is getting a whole new twist here. Queen of Kings opens with the Egyptian queen and her husband on the cusp of war with the Roman emperor Octavian and his legion. They are outnumbered. But Cleopatra has one last idea on how they can defeat Rome. She summons an ancient Goddess to suffuse her with power. But things go terribly wrong.Octavian finds a way to trick Mark Antony into suicide, which sets off
I haven't read Historical Fiction since 2013, and it used to be my favourite genre.I saw Queen of Kings sitting there for $8, and I just HAD to buy it after reading the synopsis. There was this nagging thought at the back of my head that I'd heard of Maria Dahvana Headley, and I later realised it was because I'd seen copies of Magonia everywhere.That day, I read the prologue. The next day, I continued and read chapter 1, 2, 3 and ta-da, I was hooked. I had to read it in parts, but it was a brill...
This is a book in which Cleopatra (a vampire) morphs into a lion and attacks Augustus at the coliseum and I kind of feel like that’s what you need to know in terms of whether you want to read it or not
