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Inez arrives in Egypt and meets her uncle’s assistant, who insists she take the next flight to Argentina. Inez is not pleased, and I don’t blame her. Her uncle doesn’t seem to care about her. The chapter’s arc is flat like a 🥞. The story hasn’t hooked me yet. 🤷🏻‍♀️
The author mixes too many Spanish words with the English, which can be distracting for readers who don’t speak Spanish.

This one will have to wait because I have to finish the Chronicles of Beauty on Dec 22 😬

I read the prologue, and honestly, I don’t think it needed to be stretched to sixteen pages to establish that Inez’s parents died overseas and that she missed them. Yes, it helped me understand her attachment issues, that her parents were archaeologists, and her relationship with her aunt and cousins. But she’s on her way to Egypt, where they lived, and will have plenty of opportunities to remember them.