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Song Of The Nile (2011)

by Stephanie Dray(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0425243044 (ISBN13: 9780425243046)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Berkley Trade

series

Cleopatra's Daughter

review 1: This book was excellent as a sequel and would have been excellent as a stand alone! Many people complained about the magic in the first one- this had less of it, so I am sure that will please some people.During any sexual scenes between Selene and Augustus, you could really feel the disgust. During the whole book, you could be Selene. This was a book you could really curl up under a blanket with.The point where Selene chose Mauretania over Egypt felt a bit rushed and sudden, but epiphanies in real life are like that sometimes!The only thing that bothered me were the sex scenes between Selene and Helios. Yes, I am aware that many dynasties, especially the Ptolmeys, wed brother to sister, but these were very vivid and very sexual. I enjoy a good book's sex scene as much as t... morehe next person, but these made me sick to my stomach with the details- she specifically states, "He wasn't my brother anymore-" Yes, yes he is. I understand the special bond that they have because they are twins, and I understand that they didn't view it as anything weird, but rather as something normal... but for Selene to speak of how their hearts beat together in the womb in one sentence and then talk about how his muscles felt against her body was a little much for me.
review 2: Oh Helios!!! How he's grown up in this book -- and I hope this isn't the last we see of him, though I can't begrudge Selene a happily ever after with Juba, either. (Even if there were moments when I really REALLY could not stand him, for how he treated and mistreated Selene!) But Helios! I'm pretty sure he's my most favorite in this book, and it is so bittersweet to love him. I can't help but wonder what it would have been, if Selene and Helios had remained in Egypt to rule as husband and wife.This book might have sucked me in even more than the first installment of the series, and I can't wait to read book three. less

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