During these summer vacations my grandmother lent me one of her favorite books: The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith. I thought that this book would be interesting but I discovered that it is extraordinary. It is a mixture of romance and adventure between an exotic and interesting context and landscape. The story alternates between
England, Egypt and the Ethiopian border.
Royan, a beautiful and young half English, half Egyptian women and her husband Duraid Al Simmu are two archeologists that live in Egypt. After years of ressurches they discovered the tomb of Queen Lostris. In the wall of the tomb they also found ten scrolls left by Taita, the author of the tomb and the slave of the queen. They translate the scroll but when they are almost getting there the scroll is stolen and Duraid is brutally killed. After that day, Royan’s life is in danger and she needs to come back to England to ask for help to the man at the top of Duraid’s list of sponsors for the expedition, which had the gowl of finding the Pharaoh Mamose’s tomb. During the role story, they seek tracks which will lead them until the tomb, but a rich and egocentric Germain wants obcessfully to find this tomb. He has a lot he has a lot of money what difficults the research of Royan and Nicolas, that in the lenght of the story became more than just friends. I advise youto read this book because it’s interesting, mixture adventure and romance and that is very well writen. There are precise details permitting you to imagine everything of the story.So enjoy it, and good reading!
