Book: What The River Knows
Author: Isabel Ibanez
Pages: 416
This is my 157th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
Bolivian-Argentinian Inex Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of 19th 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. Inex has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her gobetrotting paretns - who frequently leave her behind. When she receives word of their tragic deaths, inex inherits their massive fortune and a mysterious guardian, an archeologist in partnership with his Egyptian brother in law. Yearing for answers, Inez sails to Cairo, brining 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 paren'ts disappearance than what her guardian led her to believe. With her guardian's infuriatingly handsom assistant thwarting her at every turn, Inez must rely on ancient magic to uncover the truth about her parent's disappearance - or risk becoming a pawn in a larger game that will kill her.
This was a pretty good book. I listened to it and it was a fast listen. I liked the story from the start, but Inez never really grew on me. She is a teenager, but I find writing about them as main characters can be hit or miss on maturity level. This one she leaned toward the immature, and while it made sense to the author to do this, it wore on me. But overall it was a good story.
Stars: 4