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lisaluvsliterature 's review for:
Rise of the Snake Goddess
by Jenny Elder Moke
I really enjoyed the book that started this series off, Curse of the Specter Queen. And so I was excited to see where the author would take our characters. As I mentioned in my review of the first book, when I was younger I really liked archeology myself, more specifically Egyptology, but all of it really was fascinating. This time we get some Greek history, connected to the minotaur and the labyrinth!
Something that kind of clicked in my brain was how both books had the big bad as a queen or goddess, making these books very female-centric or touching on the strength of women. I mean your main character is a young woman in the ages when they were still fighting to go to college and make things of themselves. And the villain being a strong woman, or goddess in this case, who had been called just a “mother-figure” type of goddess by all the male archeologists, really hit home a lot of what the author is trying to put forth in these stories I think.
Samantha Knox, or Sam, had to deal with the prejudice against females from the lead professor at her college, so much that he even cut off a normal scholarship she’d worked her butt off to win, just so he wouldn’t have to take her. Not to mention how even at times, Bennett, her boyfriend, and yes we do like him, he is a good guy, but you could see how he even somewhat unconsciously had a bias about her being able to do things or make decisions because of her being a woman.
And yes, she did make some choices that weren’t necessarily wise at the time, or maybe the way she went about them wasn’t the best decision. But she also was young, and came from a different world than her best friend Joanna and her brother, Sam’s beau, Bennett. It was all of these different things coming together that led them on the adventure into a cave, to a party for antiquity smugglers, and finally the ascension of the snake goddess and a trip to the labyrinth to escape the minotaur.
Another fun adventure that I’ll definitely recommend to my students!
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.
Something that kind of clicked in my brain was how both books had the big bad as a queen or goddess, making these books very female-centric or touching on the strength of women. I mean your main character is a young woman in the ages when they were still fighting to go to college and make things of themselves. And the villain being a strong woman, or goddess in this case, who had been called just a “mother-figure” type of goddess by all the male archeologists, really hit home a lot of what the author is trying to put forth in these stories I think.
Samantha Knox, or Sam, had to deal with the prejudice against females from the lead professor at her college, so much that he even cut off a normal scholarship she’d worked her butt off to win, just so he wouldn’t have to take her. Not to mention how even at times, Bennett, her boyfriend, and yes we do like him, he is a good guy, but you could see how he even somewhat unconsciously had a bias about her being able to do things or make decisions because of her being a woman.
And yes, she did make some choices that weren’t necessarily wise at the time, or maybe the way she went about them wasn’t the best decision. But she also was young, and came from a different world than her best friend Joanna and her brother, Sam’s beau, Bennett. It was all of these different things coming together that led them on the adventure into a cave, to a party for antiquity smugglers, and finally the ascension of the snake goddess and a trip to the labyrinth to escape the minotaur.
Another fun adventure that I’ll definitely recommend to my students!
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.