The Sekhmet Bed (The She-King, #1)

Posted on 17 May 2017 by Libbie Hawker

Queen Ahmose knows her duty to give the Pharaoh a son But she is young, and has just watched her closest friend die in childbirth If the Pharaoh plants his seed in her she will die the same way, in a pool of blood, surrounded by wailing women She has her husband s love, but a king must have an heir and even the Pharaoh s patience will run out Meanwhile, a lesser queen Ahmose s own sister has given him three sweet, bright children, all of them boys Ahmose knows her grasp on the Pharaoh s heart is loosening.Desperate, she begs the gods for courage to become a mother They give her than courage she is granted a vision of a shining prince, her son a gift for Egypt who will bring glory to the land He will be than the son of a king He will be the son of the god Amun.But when the child arrives, it s a girl.Ahmose knows the vision was not wrong Her daughter Hatshepsut has a male soul, and Amun intends the girl to rule But the Pharaoh will not scandalize Egypt by proclaiming a female successor If she cannot convince the Pharaoh to accept Hatshepsut as his heir, everything Ahmose loves will be destroyed Stephanie Dray, author of the critically acclaimed Lily of the Nile Best Download The Sekhmet Bed (The She-King, #1) By Libbie Hawker For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Sekhmet One who is powerfulSekhmet Image Wikipedia To the ancient Egyptians, Sekhmet was a warrior goddess with the head of a lion As The Sekhmet Bed opens, Ahmose, the thirteen year old younger daughter of the just deceased Pharaoh, has little in common with a lioness Her older sister has been groomed all her life to be a Great Royal Wife, while Ahmose prefers to focus on the spiritual When their father dies without a male heir, Thutmose, one of his trusted generals, is named KingSekhmet One who is powerfulSekhmet Image Wikipedia To the ancient Egyptians, Sekhmet was a warrior goddess with the head of a lion As The Sekhmet Bed opens, Ahmose, the thirteen year old younger daughter of the just deceased Pharaoh, has little in common with a lioness Her older sister has been groomed all her life to be a Great Royal Wife, while Ahmose prefers to focus on the spiritual When their father dies without a male heir, Thutmose, one of his trusted generals, is named King It seems straightforward enough that Thutmose, who is of humble origins, would be married to a king s daughter to give his reign legitimacy To the surprise of both sisters, it is Ahmose who is n... 4.5 starsI ll be honest Normally I shy away from self published and independently published books for the mere fact that I have a very strident and strict editor in my head When I read books, even mainstream, big house published books, and find errors, that editor aches to pop out and start flaying the pages with a bold red pencil Knowing that self published works suffer evenas they lack the pol...Disclaimer I picked this up as a freebie It got bumped up my reading list because the author posted some intelligent comments on a friend s review.Historical fiction is iffy Too often characters became saints or sinners and that is it This book is the first in trilogy and recounts the birth of one of thefamous female pharaohs Hatshepsut The focus is on Ahomse, her husband Tut, and her sister co wife Nufert Here s the thing, too often the rival is displayed as the evil witch and th Disclaimer I picked this up as a freebie It got bumped up my reading list because the author posted some intelligent comments on a friend s review.Historical fiction is iffy Too often characters became saints or sinners and that is it This book is the first in trilogy and recounts the birth of one of thefamous female pharaohs Hatshepsut The focus is on Ahomse, her husband Tut, and her sister co wife Nufert Here s the thing, too often the rival is displayed as the evil witch and the heroine the poor sinned against character I am thinking of the Other Boleyn Girl here This is not the case here Nufert may be ...This independently published e book was recommend to me by a friend whose literary tastes are mostly similar to my own and whose judgment in such matters I consider sound Like her, I tend to be a tad wary of small, independently published or self published works because, broadly speaking, the quality tends to be lower than books from big publishing houses, and a lotgrammatical and spelling mistakes tend to slip by without a team of proofreaders on ...Such a beautiful novel and one I highly enjoyed My Rating 5 starsI m always a little bit apprehensive about picking up a Kindle book by which I mean a book published only through ebook distributors , though honestly I m not sure why I ve read plenty of crap that came straight from New York, after all, and plenty of direct to ebooks that turned out great It s probably just fear of bad grammar, to be honest And I think I mlikely to pick up books outside of my comfort zone when they re free cheap on Kindle, so there s that.This book was at once tota I m always a little bit apprehensive about picking up a Kindle book by which I mean a book published only through e...Ancient Egypt Check.The beginnings of Hatshepsut s rise to power Check.Rivalry between siblings Check but understandable.In short, this was an awesome read and I can t understand why NY passed this over.A masterpiece of historical fiction Well developed characters provide drama and propel the story forward, despite the uncertainties the author confesses in her historical note This story successfully opens the larger tale of Hatshepsut while also making a cogent whole of the circumstances of her birth and preparation to become the She King.Ironside deserves extra credit for treating the religion of ancient Egypt seriously Too many modern authors are tempted to wink and smirk at ancient belief A masterpiece of historical fiction Well developed characters provide drama and propel the story forward, despite the uncertainties the author confesses in her historical note This story successfully opens the larger tale of Hatshepsut while also making a cogent wh...Ahmose is a young Egyptian of royal blood When her father, the Pharaoh, dies without an heir, she and her elder sister are both married off to General Thutmose, that he might rule Egypt via his connection to the royal line.Ahmose is athan deeply religious girl She is chosen of the gods and has the ability to read prophetic dreams Despite being the younger sister she is selected as the first queen, setting off a traumatic and bitter rivalry with her beloved sister, Mutnofret The sisters Ahmose is a young Egyptian of royal blood When her father, the Pharaoh, dies without an heir, she and her elder sister are both married off to General Thutmose, that he might rule Egypt via his connection to the royal line.Ahmose is athan deeply religious girl She is chosen of the gods and has the ability to read prophetic dreams Despite being the younger siste...The Sekhmet Bed is an interesting novel set in ancient Egypt, with two royal sisters competing for the throne, each in her own very peculiar way The prize is very high and they are prepared to go to any lengths to achieve it This story develops slowly, but pleasantly The two main female characters are very vivid and alive The secondary characters are less so I gave it less than four stars mainly because of this I would love to see the male characters livelier,complicated,thre The Sekhmet Bed is an interesting novel set in ancient Egypt, with two royal sisters competing for the throne, each in her own very peculiar way The prize is very high and they are prepared to go to any lengths to achieve it This story develops slowly, but pleasantly The two main female characters are very vivid and alive The secondary characters are less so I gave it less than four stars mainly because of this I would love to see the male characters livelier,complicated,three dimensional, persons in themselves and not only the backgrounds to serve the developing plot The historical research seems to be very deep and encompassing It serves ...

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17 May 2017

Libbie Hawker