A review by erinbritt
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney

3.0

While I preferred Kooney’s other book The Woman Who Would Be King I found this one really interesting and informative. It was really interesting and gave good information about both Egypt’s more famous queens/female kings, Cleopatra and Nefertiti, as well as some less famous ones like Tausret. I thought she had too many modern connections throughout the book, they were okay in the introduction but I found them disruptive and annoying in the rest of the text. I didn’t really care for the epilogue either but I would recommend reading it if you want to learn about female Egyptian kings.