Book review:
Eye of Horace
Addison L. Jones
Blyndyn Square books
Overall:
This debut novel retells the story of an ancient Egyptian myth in a modern context, it centers around a family and all their tragedies, mysteries, and secrets. It is a story that not only shows life's true realities such as loss, lies, and secrecy it also shows the aftermath of the each tragedy and how real and deep human emotions can be.
Eye of Horace has a well written story that centers around two main characters and their perspective about all the events that unfold in their life. You can see major character development from both characters and feel a sense of pride towards the end towards one character's growth. The book has so many cliff hangers, twists and turns that it'll leave you wanting more wondering what will happen next.
Once I started this book I couldn't help but keep going, it was not only a page turner but gave me 'the reader' a pleasure in getting questions answered, secrets unveiled and excited at certain points. Each chapter is told in a different perspective and starts off exactly where the previous point of view left off.
There were so many different surprises that kept appearing throughout the story that I was on the edge of my seat most of the time. Towards the middle of the book the story did stall for a bit but quickly caught up to bring more excitement, especially towards the end.
Story:
I loved the two main characters and do wish their life in the story would have gotten better instead of worse. It seemed like the main characters never really got a break or a chance to be happy. Once the ball got rolling in tragedy it didn't stop, I would have liked to see a happier ending. However I do understand that not all stories can have that 'happily ever after ending' and thought that the author did a good job in wrapping both stories very well.
Rating:
★★★★☆ 4/5
I really liked it
Recommend for a fun read
What you'll take: It will make you revaluate your relationships with those you love and will make you think about taking different perspective on things.
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