Cleopatra: A Life

Dry, dry, dry! I wanted to like this book I really really did want to. I guess I am a history nerd but I have loved anything ancient history, Greece, Rome, Egypt etc since I was only around 8 years old. I just couldn't enjoy this novel. I tried to think of it as a text book and still...could not force myself through excruciatingly detailed accounts of minutia with no apparent reason for their inclusion. Below is a quote from another GoodReads review by Elizabeth:

...“I also found boring the detailed accounts of the Ptolemies' intermarriages, of the ruthless executions of family members in line of succession, and of the conflict brought on by the Macedonia ancestry of the Ptolemies, including Cleopatra, simply because there are other sources for this.”...

You are correct Elizabeth. Such accounts had me studying the backs of my eyelids instead of the written page.