❝You know my name but you do not know me. I am Cleopatra. This is not the story of how I died. But of how I lived.❞

❝Look within and you will see me. I am every woman scorned, and every girl wronged. I am wrath of vengeance and the heat of desire. I am everything carnal and your darkest sins. I am all that is innocent and pure.

Witch. Whore. Villain.

But I am also Cleopatra; the mother, the lover, the friend, and so much more.❞

❝Never trust the story, only the storyteller.❞

I would have given it a 5 but it was a bit slow and spent more time on her early life than the later. But this is a beautiful piece that intertwined historical facts and fiction, nonetheless. 

❝My love for my country was as vast as the pyramids and deep as the ocean.❞

❝One for the past and the happy years well spent, one for the present and the patience we extend, one for the future and the love that never ends.❞

Queen, Legend, Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic Cleopatra, from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faeboundand The Final Strife .

YOU KNOW MY NAME.

BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.

Your historians call me seductress, but I was always in love’s thrall.

Your playwrights speak of my witchcraft, but I was gifted my talents by the gods.

Your poets sing of my blood-lust, but I was protecting my children.

They cannot credit that a mere woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely blessed to rule.

Death will silence me no longer.

This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.

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