larobb01 's review for:

The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller by James Patterson, Martin Dugard

3.0

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

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I think Patterson attempted to write both a fictionalized vision of Tut's life and a non-fiction (using the world loosely, I suspect) account of Tut's death and discovery.... all in a little over 300 pages. In the end, I don't think he does either particularly well; I would have preferred he choose or the other, or write two books: one a fictional telling of his life, the other a nonfiction exploration of the idea that he was murdered. I think trying to do both, especially in such a short span, was unsuccessful.