Name: Cleopatra Confesses
Rating: 2.625 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9781416987277

Carolyn Meyer

Princess Cleopatra, the third (and favorite) daughter of King Ptolemy XII, comes of age in ancient Egypt, accumulating power and discovering love.

Cleopatra Confesses

Jeni Enjaian

The voice of the protagonist in this novel sounded wrong the entire novel. In the early portions, the voice sounded much older than the five year old child the protagonist was at the time. Then as Cleopatra grew older, the voice stayed the same, showed no maturity at all. By the end of the novel, it sounded like Cleopatra lost her voice entirely. By the second half of the book, I felt like I was reading an only slightly fictionalized version of a history book. If I wanted a history book, I would read that. The beauty of historical fiction is that you are able to dig into aspects of history normally excluded from works of history. When one writes a novel based on an historical character, one runs the risk of sounded pedantic and inauthentic which is what happened with this book.

I do notrecommend it.

Cleopatra Confesses

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