A kids adventure book set in ancient Egypt, who would have thought it would have worked?! It did!Some of the dialogue seemed a bit juvenile at times, and at others quite adult, this made the main characters a little less real. Sometimes I didn't get why we went off on descriptive tangents about rand...
The Golden Scarab stands up decently against the other action adventure books out there. You’ve got quests, myths that turn out to be true, and danger. What else could you want? I thought it was interesting that the author took a different style of narration. Many MG books tend to have a juvenile n...