Daughters of the Nile: A Novel of Cleopatra's Daughter Series, Book 3
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Daughters of the Nile: A Novel of Cleopatra's Daughter Series, Book 3 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Stephanie Dray (Author), Kyla Garcia (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher)
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New York Times best-selling author Stephanie Dray's historical fiction series comes to a stunning conclusion as the daughter of Cleopatra risks everything to revive her dynasty.

After years of abuse as the emperor's captive in Rome, Cleopatra Selene is now a powerful queen, ruling over the exotic kingdom of Mauretania with her husband, King Juba II, by her side. But when a jealous Augustus Caesar demands that her children be given over to him to be fostered in Rome, Selene is drawn back into the web of imperial plots and intrigues that she vowed to leave behind....

Determined and resourceful, Selene must shield her loved ones from the emperor's wrath, all while vying with ruthless rivals like King Herod. But unless she can find a way to overcome the threat to her marriage, kingdom, family, and faith, Selene may very well be the last of her line....

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  1. Listening Length
    21 hours and 43 minutes
  2. Author
    Stephanie Dray
  3. Narrator
    Kyla Garcia
  4. Audible release date
    January 29, 2019
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Blackstone Publishing
  7. ASIN
    B07MPDKBTB
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 21 hours and 43 minutes
Author Stephanie Dray
Narrator Kyla Garcia
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date January 29, 2019
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B07MPDKBTB
Best Sellers Rank #77,104 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#264 in Biographical Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#669 in Historical Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals)
#673 in Biographical Historical Fiction

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Kb2007
5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the series
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2024
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This trilogy was wonderful! I enjoyed reading every word. Cleopatra Selene and her life was remarkably portrayed and so marvelously finalized in this third book. I recommend the trilogy to anyone. However, this book was the best of the trilogy.
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Michalea
5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect end to the trilogy
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2014
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An admission: I'm a dyed in the wool Egypt-o-phile and my interest in Augustan Rome isn't all that far behind. I read a lot of novels about those cultures/time periods. (I also read a lot of non-fiction in the same area.) Most of the novels aren't very good. They either totally blow the history, or they nail the history at the expense of the writing. There are a wretched few that blow the history and the writing.

Stephanie Dray's final volume in the trilogy about Cleopatra Selene, the daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, is the happy exception. Even though the actual historical facts about Cleopatra Selene are somewhat sketchy, Dray beautifully brings to life a woman who stood in the shadows of some of history's greatest legends.

If you want a love story that encompasses a heroine's journey against the vivid background of Imperial Rome (and an exotic Roman vassal state) and a heroine who wields heka (magic) with the skill of Hermione Granger with sometimes tragic consequences, this is the book (and trilogy) for you.

Unlike many trilogies with only have enough material for one book but stretched to three to satisfy some market niche, I found myself alternately not wanting this trilogy to end and being completely satisfied with how it did end.

This third book can probably stand alone. Having read the previous two books and knowing the bones of the historical story, however, I can't say that for certain. And really, why cheat yourself out of the experience of reading all three?

If I have any complaints, and I have very few, my main one was that at times Cleopatra Selene seemed a bit strident. Of course, that made for a nice character flaw.
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Katharine E. Quinn
4.0 out of 5 stars A Heroine Who Can Walk In Slo-Mo
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2013
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4.5 Stars!

The most cliched Hero Shot in Hollywood is the sight of the hero striding in slow-motion away from a wall of flame. It's so cliched that it's now more likely to inspire giggles than sighs. I bring this up because Stephanie Dray's Selene has at last matured into the kind of capital-H Heroine who can stride, in slo-mo, in front of a wall of flame, and she will not raise giggles but the hair on your neck instead.

Selene earned our sympathy as the wary scheming girl of "Lily of the Nile," and our pity as the desperate and damaged young woman of "Song of the Nile," but as the powerful queen of "Daughters of the Nile" she would scorn your pity and laugh at your sympathy, because queens need neither. Whether Selene is worrying over her children, scheming to outwit her enemies, or making a final heart-wrenching attempt to connect with her long-estranged husband Juba, she never fails to impress. She comes full flower here as a woman who can succor her man, a mother who can kill for her children, a priestess who can bring grace to her worshippers, and a goddess who can flatten you with a glance - and Dray makes us believe every word of it. There are political machinations here, and emotional ones too as the children of a new generation come to take their part in the deadly games of Selene's arch-enemy Emperor Augustus, but it's Selene who carries the stage from beginning to end. I'm only knocking off half a star because some part of me dearly longed for Cleopatra's daughter to change history here, to take her goddess's magic, break Rome in half, and found a new world order in which this review would be written in Egyptian hieroglyphs. History didn't quite turn out that way, but Dray's Selene would have been just the heroine to do it.

Full disclaimer: even a cursory look at our Facebook pages will reveal that Stephanie Dray and I are friends. But I was an admirer of Stephanie's books long before I met her in person, so I hope this review will be taken as the very sincere measure of praise that it is.
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Holly Y
5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than "Song" & "Lily!"
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2014
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Sigh. I finish this book and realize that no matter how attached/emotional I get over characters and story lines and deaths and births in my favorite books, I have never actually CRIED while reading a book. (I'm not sure which is worse to admit, that I've never cried before, or that I cried during this book) My eyes were full of tears with that swollen feeling in my throat the entire second half of this book. And I felt like I was holding my breath the entire time as well.
AMAZING. Just amazing. Selene is now my favorite historical figure of any time (and I read A LOT of historical fiction)...Dray put the sometimes few or sometimes many facts of Selene's life and the lives of the people woven in and out of her life together so beautifully and tragically, I don't know if I'll ever get over it.
And I have never read a character that I loved so much or got so exasperated with than Selene. Ms. Dray grew this figure so perfectly, always standing fast with what she envisioned for her personality. The grief and fear in the first book, the anger and stubbornness in the second book, and the worry and love in the third book...the love. As sappy as I'm usually not, the amount of love that the author was able to portray in the second half of this book brought tears to my eyes, as well as the way she describes grief.
Truly EPIC. This final book to Selene's life brought it to such a fantastic close, and I am already dying to read more books from Dray!
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Mss57
5.0 out of 5 stars best one yet
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2023
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This was an amazing trilogy! I have always loved the cleopatra-Anthony story! Their daughter was AMAZING, and this book truly reveals the best of her life.
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Pauline T
3.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in Canada on April 4, 2019
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Good read
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Francesca F
5.0 out of 5 stars The grand finale!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2017
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This book is the final part of Stephanie Dray's trilogy on Cleopatra's children.
The book picks up in the latter part of Selene's life with Juba and how her life changes when she has her own children. The plot stays the same but questions you had previously are answered. When will Selene push Caesar away for good? It is the perfect ending to a fantastic trilogy, and I am sad that there are no books to read on this dynasty.
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