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3.5 stars

⚱️ Historical fiction
⚖️ Gothic atmosphere
⚱️ Egypt & Victorian England
⚖️ Myths, curses & mystery
⚱️ Egyptology and Egyptomania
⚖️ Sisters
⚱️ Historical and cultural theft

Nephthys has a good, gothic atmosphere that fans of Pandora will enjoy. It delicately dances along the line of tension as to whether curses are superstition or reality, keeping the mystery alive.

I really enjoyed Egypt and the Egyptian myths and would have liked to have seen more myths included. For me, the story unravelled too slowly. The pacing early on was slow but improved in the latter half, and I became much more involved in the plot then.

The most important parts of the novel, for me, were the discussions surrounding the theft of Egypt's history and cultural artefacts by colonial powers, Egyptomania, and the sheer awfulness of disinterring and selling mummies - human remains - with so little respect, and disregarding that these are people's ancestors.