A Review: The Woman Who Would be King by Kara Cooney

Hi Everyone!

I recently read a book called The Woman Who Would be King by Kara Cooney, provided to me by Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest review.

This book is about the life of Hapshepsut, a female Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt. This book review is going to be rather short because, honestly, I don't have a lot to say about it. It wasn't a fantastic book and I struggled with it.

There was a lot of "this might have happened, but no one knows for sure because the Egyptians didn't keep those kinds of records." I do realize that there is only so much you can do when the things left to you don't give you all the answers you want, but I found this tendency to be particularly annoying. The beginning actually starts out really well, almost like Kara is going to tell you her version of events in a story format, but then that changes and it isn't like that at all.

I'm sure some people would enjoy this book, but I didn't really. There were some interesting things to learn, but overall, I was bored and annoyed. I would give this book 2.5 out of 5 stars.

Until next time,

Jenell