HAH please watch this if you haven't yet. The chaos!
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Showing posts with label egyptian gods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label egyptian gods. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 April 2022
Sunday, 18 October 2020
Nefertiti (Booktober)
"The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power."
Rahotep is a detective, under orders from his exalted ruler himself. If you think that sounds fairly normal for a book, I should add that said exalted ruler is the Pharaoh, and our detective lives in Ancient Egypt. Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead brings forth a stunning mystery set smack-dab in the middle of the desert. What has happened to the most beautiful woman in all the land, right before an important festival? And just like in modern times, the detective works under a tight deadline, except this one is deadlier than any of ours could ever be. Find the Queen - and save your family.
She is Nefertiti—beautiful and revered. With her husband, Akhenaten, she rules over Egypt, the most affluent, formidable, sophisticated empire in the ancient world. But an epic power struggle is afoot, brought on by the royal couple's inauguration of an enlightened new religion and the construction of a magnificent new capital. The priests are stunned by the abrupt forfeiture of their traditional wealth and influence; the people resent the loss of their gods—and the army is enraged by the growing turbulence around them. Then, just days before the festival that will celebrate the new capital, Nefertiti vanishes ...
(from Goodreads)
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*image not mine
Thursday, 5 September 2019
Tome Thursday: The Crown of Ptolemy
Hello everyone!
Ohmygosh, I know.
It's taken me absolutely forever to finish this trilogy, and the things are only short e-novellas.
I'm terrible at keeping track of what still needs to be done when it comes to books, because I get too easily distracted by the whole lot of unread tomes out there.
I have a list as long as my arm of things I have yet to read, not to mention a couple of books that are begging to be reviewed, but right now I figured, might as well do something useful and actually stop pissing off a group of demigods.
And magicians. Never forget the magicians.
When Greek and Egyptian magic collide, you're bound to have some really great stories, and among them, Rick Riordan is probably the ultimate storyteller, at least so far as I've seen.
He did give us Percy Jackson, after all.
So let's check out The Crown of Ptolemy, and see what kind of trouble our favourite demigod gets himself into.
Thursday, 18 July 2019
Tome Thursday: The Staff of Serapis
Hello everyone!
Time to continue on with what we started last week, although I only just realized that the finishing sequence of this trilogy will have to wait for JUST a little.
But before I get into that, let's head back into the world of mythos, shall we?
We're dealing with the Greeks and the Egyptians here, and if this sounds like something Blood & Treasure might have cooked up, or even straight out of history with the way Alexander the Great conquered Egypt and made it his personal province, well, you'd be right.
A lot of things you read in books have already happened throughout history, and NOTHING is weirder than actual history, let me tell you.
... There's actually nothing weirder than having huge gods run around with crocodile heads, but if people believed that and it kept them happy, I suppose we can't really argue against it, can we?
Last week, the boys got their adventure in the books.
This week it's girl time, since The Staff of Serapis is all about girl power.
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Tome Thursday: Brooklyn House Magician's Manual
Hello everyone!
It's back to basics this week with books, and with that I mean that I want to review one of the so-called guide books you sometimes get with a book series or a single book (if it warrants it).
Of course it's also just because I'm a big Rick Riordan fan.
Every once in a while, I'll sit down and make sure I read through some of his books, and while I was busy reviewing his Kane Chronicles about a month ago, I almost completely forgot about a new publication he was releasing into the world!
Since every magician needs a trusty sidekick and a guide to ensure that they don't accidentally set themselves on fire, or turn their helpful baboon into a statue, I thought we might take a look at this.
And I mean, I love how every series is getting a manual of how-tos.
Percy Jackson and Magnus Chase having done their job, it's now time for the Kanes to take centre stage.
Let's take a look at the Brooklyn House Magician's Manual, shall we?
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Tome Thursday: The Kane Chronicles
Hello everyone!
As we cheerfully start our way into October and the first week of it is drawing to a close, I figured I could probably dust off some oldie-goldies when it came to books.
Let's face it, there are some that you pick up and read again and again.
If they include hilarious teenage-god encounters, that happens even more often!
The only thing better now would be to have Lucifer on speed-dial for the sarcastic remarks, but I suppose if you can't get him then any old god will do.
In this post, I continue my trek through Rick Riordan's books, as I tend to do every once in a while when I'm feeling especially down about something, because inevitably it'll be one of his deity representations that makes me giggle like a lunatic and feel better.
Tonight, that honour falls to Horus & Co.
Please turn your pages to The Kane Chronicles.
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