Reviewed by Taylin
TITLE: The Eternal Spell
SERIES: The Pharaoh’s Promise #1
AUTHOR: Rebecca Cohen
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 102 Pages
RELEASE DATE: October 7, 2024
BLURB:
Callum Gething meets the alluring Dominic Fairweather at a card game during a night on the Ton, and agrees to take a strange pottery object to stand-in for his winnings. But a spell from thousands of years ago is going to change everything Dominic and Callum thought about themselves, and who they were in Ancient Egypt when their souls were first bound together.
The Eternal Spell is the first in a shared world of The Pharaoh’s Promise. An ancient spell designed to keep loved ones together in the afterlife is locked away, but when freed the spell casts its influence through the centuries weaving love along its path.
REVIEW:
A Card game and an ushabti reconnect two nineteenth-century souls to their original selves in ancient Egypt.
Damn, I love an ancient Egyptian tale. The Eternal Spell is the first of five offerings in this multi-author series. The thought of being so in love with someone you can connect with in the future and remember your old life is hugely appealing. Regardless of beliefs – at the very least, it would make death not so scary.
The story is told in the third person, present tense, primarily from the viewpoints of Callum and Dominic. I say ‘primarily’ because Callum and Dominic have memories of ancient times in their former bodies. Callum and Dominic hail from 1824 London, England. Anyone who has watched the hit series Bridgerton will be familiar with the social Ton scene and all that comes with it. While this snippet in time is splendid, my favorite parts were the flashbacks to ancient Egypt. It was these excerpts that made me fall for the characters. Rebecca Cohen has a knack for using words to make a picture come to life.
The tale is a shortie, and the romance between all versions of Callum and Dominic made me melt. I only had one ‘however’ moment, which comes down to personal reading tastes. Due to my love of Egyptian history, I’d have preferred that the story stayed with Callum and Dominic while they figured out their lives and travels, including one potential fly-in-the-ointment, instead of discovering their historical fate via another source. The alternative was sweet and well-written, but given the story length, I didn’t have time to connect to anyone else. Nevertheless, I can see why the ending was written in that way. Maybe – pleeeeaaasseee, can we have a director’s cut of this book??? XXXXX
It was a splendid and touching read, but I’m an Egypt nerd and wanted to read more about travels.
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