Laurel A. Rockefeller

I discovered this series long after its first book. As I mentioned several times before (and I will keep on mentioning, with the risk of becoming annoying), this is the beauty of a book blogger – discovering books and having the amazing opportunity to read and review them directly from the source, or helping promote them in any way we can.

“Cleopatra VII: Egypt’s Last Pharaoh” contains some of the most important moments of Cleopatra’s life – the amazing, beautiful and intelligent show more Cleopatra. In just a little under 100 pages we have the opportunity to learn a little more of her life, of Egyptian and Roman history. Some of you guys may ask: why do I care? Why is she so important and why should she be of interest to me? Well the author captures in this short book how exceptional the Pharaoh was, how her beauty attracted many, but her heart had room for only one. We see how loved she was and how she returned this affection with intelligence.

There are so many articles and books out there about her and about the many amazing women of our history and Laurel A. Rockefeller’s story is just one of the great ones. In the form of a narration, the author tells her life and speaks of her love and loveless marriage. I must admit I wanted to know so much more and I wanted more details. I am frustrated over the small amount of pages we have. But in my opinion, the author reached her purpose, that of making me – the reader – more curious and more eager to know more. I can only thank her for that and bow my head for the respect she is showing to one of the greatest minds history has seen.

I do invite you to go through the series and discover the many other amazing personalities that have shaped our world. show less

The story of Queen Elizabeth Tudor is fascinating. That was really hard for me to say. Seriously, I hated history in school, except for the music. For me to show the slightest interest in anything historical or political is astounding! Rather than a boring biography, this author has breathed life into this story, while managing to remain historically accurate. I can't wait to hear the audio version.

I discovered this series long after its first book. As I mentioned several times before (and I will keep on mentioning, with the risk of becoming annoying), this is the beauty of a book blogger – discovering books and having the amazing opportunity to read and review them directly from the source, or helping promote them in any way we can.

“Cleopatra VII: Egypt’s Last Pharaoh” contains some of the most important moments of Cleopatra’s life – the amazing, beautiful and intelligent show more Cleopatra. In just a little under 100 pages we have the opportunity to learn a little more of her life, of Egyptian and Roman history. Some of you guys may ask: why do I care? Why is she so important and why should she be of interest to me? Well the author captures in this short book how exceptional the Pharaoh was, how her beauty attracted many, but her heart had room for only one. We see how loved she was and how she returned this affection with intelligence.

There are so many articles and books out there about her and about the many amazing women of our history and Laurel A. Rockefeller’s story is just one of the great ones. In the form of a narration, the author tells her life and speaks of her love and loveless marriage. I must admit I wanted to know so much more and I wanted more details. I am frustrated over the small amount of pages we have. But in my opinion, the author reached her purpose, that of making me – the reader – more curious and more eager to know more. I can only thank her for that and bow my head for the respect she is showing to one of the greatest minds history has seen.

I do invite you to go through the series and discover the many other amazing personalities that have shaped our world. show less

Well-researched and interesting, this story is not my usual choice for reading material, yet I found it fascinating. The author has taken factual information, and interspersed it with imagined dialogue, to make a decent history lesson into a great book. The description lists it as teaching material for primary and middle school, but I disagree that an elementary school child would enjoy this, unless maybe it's read aloud. Late middle school and high school students would, no doubt, enjoy it show more more than the dry history tomes they are burdened with. show less