It all started innocently enough for Dr. Nicole Salem, just another day “at the office”. If your office happened to be, the Deserts of Egypt and you happened to be an archeologist working in the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple. That’s when things go from “just another day” to “staring down your own destiny” in the blink of an eye. Leaving Dr. Nicole Salem with a destiny she didn’t know was possible and enemies coming from all sides. As she learns what is to be who is she is, Sekhmet’s Light.

Akhet, The Inundation is book one in Sekhmet’s Light Trilogy written by H.L. Reasby. Reasby is a talented author with a firm grasp of both conversation and descriptive narrative. She is very detailed in her descriptions of characters and settings, which gives the reader a feeling of being included in the story. I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting Egypt; however, H.L. Reasby’s description left me feeling as if I could smell the air of the market place.

Her description of her characters covered every last detail so flawless that I felt as if I knew them nearly as well as I know myself. I also appreciated the ‘Dramatis Personae’ in the end of the book. I’ve read other novels where the authors have tried to include something similar before the novel even began and all it did was serve to confuse me for the first few chapters because I didn’t know who to look for. So Kudos for that!

If I’m honest, as much as I enjoyed Akhet, The Inundation, I had one major issue. The novel as a whole left me feeling a bit “time warped”. Basically, what I mean is this, so much would happen in a few pages that it felt to me as if 20, 30 or 40 pages had been read. In fact, I had read maybe 10 pages. At other times, things would move at a slower pace and the opposite would occur. I felt sure that 10 pages had been read; when in fact, I had read 40 pages or more. You would think that the two would cancel each other out. They don’t. They left me feeling like I was reading for hours at a time and hardly making any progress at all. A book that should have taken me a few days to read, took me 10 days.

Overall, “time warp” issues aside, I enjoyed Akhet, The Inundation. I mean yeah, it took me longer than usual to read but in the end, it did what it should and that’s get me hooked. I’m now invested in Dr. Nicole Salem’s life. I want to see how she handles this new twist destiny has thrown her way. I want to see if she beats the bad guys. I want to see if the girl can have her destiny, save the day and maybe find love too. ( )