Cheryl Carey’s Reviews > Cleopatra > Status Update

Oh, yes I did.. got up in the middle of the night to see what Cleopatra and her siblings were up to...
Life is always interesting when you have to live up to being both a pharaoh and a god...

and then along comes Julius

"Fury pulled me to my feet. 'Fire? I am the furnace of the Lighthouse of Pharos. I shine, I lead, I burn. For I am the Pharaoh of Egypt, and I will not tolerate being spoken to in this way.'

~ Cleopatra from Saara El-Arifi's Cleopatra

"There are those of you who seek my bones. But my roots lie deep beneath the dirt and soil of every woman who has drawn breath.

Like the blue veins that flutter under the translucent skin of your wrist, I am the Nile of your body and the surging waters of your heart.

I was a pharaoh once, a wife twice, a mother more than thrice."

Saara El-Arifi
Author of Cleopatra by Saara

"I sought Cleopatra's voice in the dust between tomes. And from that ancient stillness she spoke back."

Saara El-Arifi
Author of Cleopatra