I started Wilbur Smith’s Ancient Egypt Series in 2015 beginning with River God and loved it to bits. A year later I restarted The Seventh Scroll but I just couldn’t get into the second book. I had wanted more of Taita but what I was getting was the account of […].

River God by Wilbur Smith is my first epic historical saga. I immediately took an intense liking to Taita, a very talented and intellectual eunuch slave. This novel—the first of the five in the Ancient Egypt series—is narrated by Taita. According to Wilbur Smith, the story in River God is real, based on the scrolls found at the Temple of Karnak, and this is why the river Nile is important in the story.“

It is safer by far to live unseen and unremarked, as I always attempt to do.” Although Taita is a very handsome man with many talents, he prefers to live a low-profile life. […]