The Short of It
Cleopatra's Daughter had been nesting on my bookshelf for several years. Honestly, I could have waited a bit longer. It read like a young adult novel but instead was misleadingly marketed towards adults. I didn't think the characters, particularly Selene were well-developed or even grew as individuals.
When I find it difficult to get through a print copy of a book but I refuse to give up, I turn to my library's audiobook selection. I consider it my lifeline, and hope the lifeboat will take float. The audiobook was actually worse than its print counterpart. Wanda McCaddon's reading sounded like it was coming out of a Victrola. The recording was grainy and as Selene is a child for half the book, it just didn't fit for me.
I did finish Cleopatra's Daughter but was greatly disappointed as I had enjoyed Michelle Moran's other Egyptian books. After I closed the cover on this novel I dropped into a little library because as they say, someone's trash is another person's treasure.
This review was originally posted on First Impressions Reviews