As an Egyptologist, Dawn knows about life and death. Having spent her academic experience studying the Book of Two Ways, an ancient sort of guidebook to the afterlife, her passion led her to believe she’d spend her career analyzing what people long dead had left behind. But life never happens how we anticipate and fifteen years after she leaves that dream behind, she realizes that she has to KNOW what she’d missed out on. Told in a unique narrative style that fit the plot really well for me, this is a story of the choices we make and the circumstances beyond our control that we have to deal with. It is about the messiness of life and the inevitability of death. It is about the people we love, the people we loose and the ones we get to find again.
I really liked this story. I loved learning about the life of an Egyptologist and the whole ancient Egyptian vibe really worked for me although I eventually stopped trying to really keep track of details and timelines and just enjoyed the history lesson at face value. I appreciated how well we delved into how complicated and beautiful and heartbreaking a marriage can be. It gave me a lot of think about with regards to the idea of the roads we didn’t travel and how that can affect the way we see ourselves and our lives as they really are. It gets 4.5 stars instead of 5 because Dawn drove me nuts sometimes with her choices and it made it harder for me to be sympathetic with her. But by the end, her relationship with her daughter, the thoughts it made me have about death itself and the strong writing made me so glad I got this book in my first Once Upon A Bookclub box.
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