( 90 ) 10/25/09
One of the questions asked during Book Blogger Appreciation Week last month was if you’d ever read a book after seeing it on mentioned on someone else’s blog. My answer at the time was “no.”
I did not read this book because of other book bloggers’ comments, since they were all discussing her newest book, but I did discover this author that way. Don’t get me wrong, I ~tried~ to get my hands on Moran’s latest, but the library didn’t have a copy yet. 
So I read this one instead and have no regrets.
I really liked this book. I was familiar with Akhenaten as history sees him, with rough details cobbled together from world history, art history in college, and too many of Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody books. It was fascinating to see his reign in the context of the time period, with politics and the like included. He is taught in the West as a revolutionary early monotheist in a land of polytheism on an epic scale. Interesting, and logical, to see it as more about finances than faith.
I liked it, and will devour the next one, about Nefertari, niece of Akhenaten, as soon as I finish my overdue library YA.
