Tina’s Reviews > What the River Knows > Status Update

- [ ] HER MOTHER IS ALIVE AND THERE?!
- [ ] Father is dead
- [ ] Her mother has been hiding and secretly trying to stop her brother from selling illegal artifacts
- [ ] She and Whit find a secret room full of treasure!

- [ ] “She was alluring and earthy, a woman who knew how to provoke, a woman who knew how to lead.”
- [ ] Sheyenne and Whit find a secret tunnel her uncle has been keeping hidden

- [ ] “Are you being polite?” I asked, aghast.” 🤣🤣🤣
- [ ] I haven’t been so excited for when I can finally have time to read a physical book like I am for this one in a long time.
- [ ] Her uncle and his business partner have been finding ancient Egyptian sites/magic and documenting them for years, but only to record and preserve, not letting them be known about by the public to preserve them

- [ ] They need someone to document the art and didn’t know before that she could draw so now there’s another reason they need her
- [ ] Finds her mothers diary and finds out her uncle committed murder and physically harmed her mother

- [ ] She gets knocked overboard on accident (Hayes figured out her disguise and did it as a joke)
- [ ] Hayes has to jump in & save her from a crocodile
- [ ] Uncle agrees to pet her come since she can sense the magic and be useful

- [ ] She dresses in traditional Egyptian men’s clothes & sneaks onto the boat
- [ ] Is her uncle behind her parent’s death?

- [ ] New mystery: is her uncle a criminal?
- [ ] Sees visions when she touches magical objects. Could it be Cleopatra since they’re hunting for her tomb?
- [ ] Tricking the old lady she is supposed to travel with back home to go solve the mystery- yea I love her

- [ ] “I would never let you inconvenience me by dying. I do have some scruples.”
- [ ] Obsessed with her escapes and Whit
- [ ] She is attuned to magical objects and picks one up in the bazaar
- [ ] I LOVE THEIR BANTER
- [ ] “Hark! I believe I see the remnants of my reputation being blown to smithereens.”
- [ ] I love the artwork included in the story. It’s so cool to see her sketches!

- [ ] Makes it to Cairo
- [ ] Whit- Whitford Hayes
- [ ] Finds her parents hotel room has been ransacked
- [ ] I do love a feisty & smart FMC so I am currently enjoying Inez
- [ ] I appreciate the discussion of European counties plundering Egypt

- [ ] Inez travels to Egypt by herself.
- [ ] Her uncle sends a British worker to try to send her back immediately. She leaves her luggage and runs into the city
- [ ] She’s wearing the magic ring her father sent and an old British dude on the train immediately zeroes in on it. It has Cleopatra’s name on it! He’s an antiquities dealer and steals it