Peasreads: What the River Knows

Beautifully written Historical Fiction with a bit of fantasy that comes together in such a lively, hard-to-put-down, tell-everyone-about-it book. You can tell that the author Isabel Ibañez did her research on this one! That combined with a gift of storytelling is pure magic.

Inez is a strong female lead who is smart and witty. Raised in Buenos Aries with parents that are gone most of her life she receives a letter from an uncle she hardly knows. Her parents had died in Eygpt. She is determined to find out what happened to her parents.

This book has suspense, twists, and turns that kept me on the edge of my seat. In a beautiful world that comes alive with the author's magic.

The cliffhanger is KILLER, I can't wait for the next installment. Until then I have ordered Together We Burn by the same author. Thank you *NetGalley and Macmillan publishers for the opportunity to read this book. 

 Description

The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez's lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her globetrotting parents—who frequently leave her behind.

When she receives word of their tragic deaths, Inez inherits their massive fortune and a mysterious guardian, an archeologist in partnership with his Egyptian brother-in-law. Yearning for answers, Inez sails to Cairo, bringing her sketch pads and a golden ring her father sent to her for safekeeping before he died. But upon her arrival, the old world magic tethered to the ring pulls her down a path where she soon discovers there’s more to her parent’s disappearance than what her guardian led her to believe.

With her guardian’s infuriatingly handsome assistant thwarting her at every turn, Inez must rely on ancient magic to uncover the truth about her parent’s disappearance—or risk becoming a pawn in a larger game that will kill her.

What the River Knows is the first book in the thrilling Secrets of the Nile duology.

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