"Enthralling time travel for romance and history lovers"
Museum Egyptian Curator Thomas Harris hires artist Harriet
Williams to draw the illustrations of a book on the first
female Pharaoh Hatshepsut. Though Thomas is confident in
Hattie's talent, the illustrator struggles to capture the
subject's visage. To inspire Hattie, Thomas allows her to
see jewelry not yet shown to the public. Hattie touches a
necklace, but instead of sensing herself alone in a
backroom, she finds herself staring at a woman who insists
she is the original Hatshepsut and an ancestor of Hattie.
She informs her descendent that they must temporarily
switch bodies and Hattie must keep her stepson safe. Hattie next sees the Royal Architect Senemut, a hunk
rumored to be Hatshepsut's lover. Though stunned, Hattie
tries to adapt to a less technical world than hers. She
also attempts to befriend the irritable stepson and nurture
Hatshespsut's daughter. However, she falls in love with
Senemut while the High Priest feels that a female does not
belong on the throne plotting to replace her with his
puppet, the stepson. Fans of time travel romance that displaces a modern day
independent female into an ancient culture will want to
read LADY OF TWO LANDS. The story line engages the
audience and the heroine does not instantly adjust to her
displacement (though she does do it relatively easily).
Hattie is quite the "little warrior" and Senemut is an
intelligent hunk who would do well in any era. The court
intrigue is well done so that sub-genre readers obtain a
delightful tale in which Elizabeth Delisi forces her
audience to have food delivered so as to complete the novel
without interruption. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted February 18, 2003
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