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A review by winterreader40
Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen by Tosca Lee
4.0
This story follows Bilqis, though she has several names throughout the story from the age of 6, when her mother dies, to 12 when her stepmother has her betrothed to her brother and she's raped repeatedly, though not in detail, by said brother before marriage. Thankfully he dies and she is sent away for approx 6 years to Punt.
At 18 she's brought back to Saba because her father is dying and no one likes her stepmother and they want to place her on the throne as a figure head but she doesn't allow that. She remains unmarried and rules herself.
This was an interesting story about a woman I knew nothing about though I've heard the saying using the phrase "queen of Sheba" many times, I'm not sure I'd reread this as it's a bit sedate even in the telling of war and travel to other kingdoms but it was interesting enough to read once.
At 18 she's brought back to Saba because her father is dying and no one likes her stepmother and they want to place her on the throne as a figure head but she doesn't allow that. She remains unmarried and rules herself.
This was an interesting story about a woman I knew nothing about though I've heard the saying using the phrase "queen of Sheba" many times, I'm not sure I'd reread this as it's a bit sedate even in the telling of war and travel to other kingdoms but it was interesting enough to read once.