![]() ![]() ![]() What did you like? It was a well-researched and super-quick read, exciting and fast paced, with lots of period detail and political intrigue. Meanwhile Nefertiti, Akhenaten’s chief wife, is unable to give him a son, while a lesser wife, Kiya, produces several, including Tutankhamun. Tensions run high as the priests and people rebel. They build an entire city, Amarna, with giant monuments to Aten and to themselves in the desert. They decide the people should worship a minor god, Aten, changing the Egyption religion and taking control of the riches away from the powerful priests. Told from the point of view of Nefertiti’s younger sister Mutnodjmet, this is the story of the rise and fall of the ambitious and beautiful teenage queen and her Pharoah, Akhenaten. What’s it about? Greed and power and immortality. Why did you read it? My book club voted it in Where did you get it? Purchased at Target Subscribe in a reader Subscribe to Books on the Brain by Email ![]()
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