Outstanding
I have read this book multiple times and find myself falling even deeper in love with it each time. Margaret could have taken a lot of liberties with this book but she doesn't. She certainly has done her research.The characters practically jump off the pages. The more you get to know them, the more you adore them. Even the most detail of descriptions is not enough. You find yourself wanting more and more.If there is one thing I didn't particularly like is how modern she wrote Cleopatra. She sugar coated her morals and point of view.It would have been a lot more interesting if she had given us the Cleopatra who is widely believed to have murdered her brother. It would have been a challenge that I guess she wasn't ready to take. Shame, really.