What the River Knows

A Novel , #1

English language

Published Sept. 14, 2023 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:
978-1-250-33485-5
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4 stars (1 review)

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her globetrotting parents—who frequently leave her behind.

When she receives word of their tragic deaths, Inez inherits their massive fortune and a mysterious guardian, an archeologist in partnership with his Egyptian brother-in-law. Yearning for answers, Inez sails to Cairo, bringing her sketch pads and a golden ring her father sent to her for safekeeping before he died. But upon her arrival, the old world magic tethered to the ring pulls her down a path where she soon discovers there’s more to her parent’s disappearance than what her guardian led her to believe.

With her guardian’s infuriatingly handsome assistant …

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reviewed What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

Cozy adventure until it isn't

4 stars

A fast-paced, not very deep adventure novel with some cute enemy to lovers romance on top. There were slightly too many twists in it to feel believeable to me and some of them felt a bit forced. The book has a light read vibe to it until a certain twist towards the end which doesn't fit with that vibe at all. Not a lot of the mysteries get resolved in this book and it ends with one hell of a cliffhanger. Thankfully, the sequel concluding this duology will come out soon. I do want to find out how it all ends.

Subjects

  • Young adult fiction, fantasy, historical