micaelabrody 's review for:

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney

3.5

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tempted to give this 4 stars since my guess is that with the limited historical evidence there wasn’t anything else cooney could have done with this book but it felt lacking in some way. but again, any “narrative” would have been pure conjecture and i understand her hesitance to over rely on fictionalizing which would inherently bring in modern tropes.