“The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in this lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.” You had me at this blurb right from the beginning! The Mummy is one of my all time favorite movies and I definitely felt that vibe while reading this book, and not only in the Egyptian setting.

I absolutely adored this book and wish I had gotten around to reading it a LOT sooner. The characters are by far my favorite part of this character driven story set in the time of early discovery and adventurous expeditions in Egypt. The settings are rich and immersive and the hint of Magic is the perfect dose.

The Blurb:

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her globetrotting parents—who frequently leave her behind.

When she receives word of their tragic deaths, Inez inherits their massive fortune and a mysterious guardian, an archeologist in partnership with his Egyptian brother-in-law. Yearning for answers, Inez sails to Cairo, bringing her sketch pads and an ancient golden ring her father sent to her for safekeeping before he died. But upon her arrival, the old world magic tethered to the ring pulls her down a path where she soon discovers there’s more to her parent’s disappearance than what her guardian led her to believe.

With her guardian’s infuriatingly handsome assistant thwarting her at every turn, Inez must rely on ancient magic to uncover the truth about her parent’s disappearance—or risk becoming a pawn in a larger game that will kill her.

Now as I am giving this a glowing review it so richly deserves there is one great big huge glaring problem with the end of this book-The mother of ALL cliffhangers! I hate them and forewarned this is not a completed series so you will have to wait for the next instalment whenever that maybe as this book was just released. And I will generally nock off a star for a cliffhanger such as this. There was some bits toward the end that I felt unnecessary but maybe will flow better in the following instalments of the series, assuming it is a series because if not, the unanswered questions and cliffhanger are then just mean. But to be fair the story was wonderful and I love the characters and their Camaraderie and especially our heroine, Inez who has that vein of mischievousness about her. So I’ll be giving this a 4/5 stars (I only subtracted half a star for the cliffhanger).

I recieved a copy of this book from Netgally for a fair and honest review.