Books: Book Review: Maria Dahvana Headley: Queen Of Kings
At its most bizarre—and it does get bizarre—Queen Of Kings: The Immortal Story Of Cleopatra seems like it’s best described by Owen Wilson’s character in The Royal Tenenbaums: “Everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is… maybe he didn’t.” Sub in Cleopatra for Custer and “at Alexandria after being defeated by Octavian” for “Little Bighorn,” and Queen Of Kings comes into focus. Specifically, the book presupposes that maybe she turned into a shape-changing, vampiric avatar of revenge, thanks to botching a spell summoning the destructive goddess Sekhmet. Maybe this led to ...
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