While having a rather animated tone that could interest some that would otherwise run away screaming at the thought of a "historical" novel, the book carries it too far. Besides the afore-mentioned innacuracies (the contemporary presence of Helen of Troy, etc.)the novel's biggest problem for me was how the characters talked. It was like a after-school special set in Egypt, with Rameses coming off at times like a reject out of Dawson's Creek. Many of the characters were overly played as stereotypes -Seti as the father who never understands, the cranky older brother, manipulative ex, and so forth - to begin with, and sounding like petulant teenagers did not help the situation.