Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: The God’s Eye
SERIES: Lancaster’s Luck #3
AUTHOR: Anna Butler
PUBLISHER: Glass Hat Press
LENGTH: 395 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 21, 2020
BLURB:
Rafe Lancaster is reluctantly settling into his role as the First Heir of House Stravaigor. Trapped by his father’s illness and his new responsibilities, Rafe can’t go with lover Ned Winter to Aegypt for the 1902/03 archaeological digging season. Rafe’s unease at being left behind intensifies when Ned’s fascination with the strange Antikythera mechanism and its intriguing link to the Aegyptian god Thoth has Ned heading south to the remote, unexplored highlands of Abyssinia and the course of the Blue Nile.
Searching for Thoth’s deadly secrets, Ned is out of contact and far from help. When he doesn’t return at Christmas as he promised, everything points to trouble. Rafe is left with a stark choice – abandon his dying father, or risk never seeing Ned again.
REVIEW:
I enjoyed this. I love history. Especially when you get into Greek stuff or Egyptian things. It’s all fascinating to me. But as good as this book turned out to be, it took a while for it to get there. I was 27 % in and almost was ready to call it quits, when stuff started getting really interesting. A lover has gone missing on a dig, lies are being thrown everywhere, spies and traitors are at every turn and you don’t know who to trust. And betrayals that are a slap in the face….
Ned loves dealing with archeological digs. And ever since he caught a glimpse of a special mechanical thing, he’s really been chomping at the teeth to get out there and find if there’s more stuff that goes to it. But Rafe can’t go with him, because of his father’s illnesses and he’s having to step in his father’s place. But in the middle of the dig, things go wrong. Ned ends up missing, along with the team with him and Rafe finds out there’s some people out there who want their hands on whatever Ned is looking for. For not so good reasons. Rafe has to take off to go find him, and hopes he can find them all before it’s too late. And if he does find them, will they make it back out alive?
Once you get past a certain part of the story, like I said, it gets interesting. Ned goes missing, Rafe is going nuts missing him to begin with and now this. But it’s the everything behind it. Like I said, there are betrayals by people you thought you could trust. Secrets and lies being told at every turn. And some things are having to be hidden in order to keep the world safe. Because what they find is hella dangerous. But man, it would be so cool to find. I’ve always wanted to go to a dig site and find things, like old pyramids or tombs. Maybe palaces, like King David and Solomon. Pharaohs or those considered gods or goddesses. Could you just imagine what it would be like to find things that haven’t been seen in so many years? Amazing. So when they come upon all of that, it was so interesting to see. The story behind it. Everything. The joy of knowing what they are seeing with their own eyes. I would be envious.
It’s a good story. You just have to start getting to the part where Ned leaves. Once you get there, everything changes and there’s action of some sort galore. That made it better.
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