![]() This is sibling rivalry at its most vicious: crossing her sisters could cost Cleopatra her life, let alone her throne. During this time, readers are treated to royal intrigue and the cutthroat politics of Cleopatra's two older sisters, Tryphaena and Berenike, who are desperate to prevent Cleopatra's rule, since she is the favorite daughter of their father, King Ptolemy XII. ![]() Meyer's short chapters can occasionally make the narrative feel choppy, but her lush, detail-rich prose ably evokes Cleopatra's life as a young princess, beginning at age 10 and continuing on until she turns 22. Before she was a queen, Cleopatra was a girl, and Meyer's incarnation of the future monarch longs to be treated as normal-wandering the marketplace, learning to dance-even as she secretly hopes to someday rule Egypt. ![]()
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