A review by fkshg8465
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

I thought I was going to be really interested in this book, but the more I read, the more I wondered why. It was certainly informative and educational, and I’ve definitely learned a lot. However, there were too many blanks filled in by her perspective and expertise. I understand that often had to happen when interpreting history. The issue for me was that it was sometimes hard to distinguish between supposition and recreated facts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pregnancy, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Incest, Miscarriage, War, and Xenophobia