Review | Heir of Ra

Heir of Ra was pretty good. Id say a solid novel, but not spectacular. Id give it three stars for not adding anything too interesting.
The Good: Alyssa is a good competent protagonist. I didnt mind following her and being in her head. The scenes with the back story were well written. She doesn't have flowery writing but the way she describes scenes and actions were top notch!

The Bad: Theres not alot for Egyptian Mythology fans. Although the civilization is talked about and experienced its not very detailed which is what I was hoping for with a book of this cover and title. The second thing that mainly bothered me is one of the side characters, Paul. He sort of just comes out of nowhere and risks his job and life for a girl he just met. Its pretty hard to believe and every scene hes in and does something showing great sacrifice or emotion for Alyssa just feels odd.
Spoiler Like for instance literally jumping in front of a blade for her and be stabbed.

 Whats kind of ridiculous and could have easily fixed this is there is a character at the beginning of the book, Jake, and he easily could have replaced Paul. He is an already established as knowing her and would be more believed to have the deep connection. Lastly is the bad guys, I honestly cant remember the difference between all the bad guys except the female who has purple eyes.

Some last minute thoughts| The TombRaider-lite feel is pretty neat, and it will definitely remind you, or make you want to play Assassin Creed while reading because it can be heavily compared to that series. (A person using her heritage to see visions of the past)

Spoilers for the Ending Twist:
I kinda wasn't feeling the twist. First off shes just announced as a "Daughter of Ra" by one of the random scientist. I dont know why he would know what she is, I dont know why they specify Ra, if Im not mistaken I think Ra is the grandfather of Horus so maybe thats why?(I didnt care to reread to check) Regardless she still wouldn't be the Daughter of Ra then but as the book is titled just an heir of Ra...
Set is randomly in the middle of the book, who is a God himself so I dont know why he was draining other Halfbreeds unless he wasnt one himself..but that wasnt clear.
Lastly they made it clear (I thought) that they needed to CONSTANTLY feed off half breeds blood to stay alive from the curse, but now Alyssas dad is permanently healed? (Im assuming from gene slicing or w/e but I dont know)
Lastly Part 2 | Alyssa basically immediately leaves her dad to go on another adventure even though he almost just died and hasnt even left the hospital yet and she spent the whole book trying to heal him. -_-