Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran

by SallyAnn
(Fruit Cove, FL)

Just for starters this is a book that the cover would have turned me off. It looks like a romance and honestly there is little romance with that frame of reference. It has a poorly illustrated cover.

We read historical fiction of the Middle Ages, Victorian and modern stories with their heartache and wars but not very much in the Ancient times. This fills the gap with the wonderful story of Marc Anthony and Cleopatra's end and starts with their daughter, Selene. You are transported to the ending of the war with Octavian and the beginning of Selene with one foot as a prisoner and one foot as a noble in Rome.
In this book we feel that time stands still and the problems of long ago are still our struggles of today, unwanted children, war, immigrants and more.

Our Book Club found this the best book for discussion than we had for a long time even thought we have read some wonderful books. Michelle Moran sent us to her web site, and Google to read more of this time of history.