Last but not least, the story tells you historical facts from way back in the ancient Egyptian days.The vocabulary and various range of adjectives, similes, and metaphors paint a picture of what the setting would be like if you were there seeing it for yourself.
Has an enjoyable, thrilling story that makes you not want to put the book down. I really enjoyed this book, I think it is simply wonderful. Finally, I will 100% recommend this book to anyone who likes Egyptian artefacts and pre-war London. The plot is good as well and also it has some exciting points. I learnt how the war four years before affected some of the characters. My favourite character in this book is probably Oz, who is a young boy who is quiet but quite smart. Secrets of the Sun King is a book set in 1922, where Lilian (the main character) and her friends embark on a journey to return a package to its resting place in order to stop a curse. I would definitely recommend it because it was a very engrossing read. All the mysteries were solved but the book kept me guessing throughout. This book always had something going on and moved at a very good pace – something was always happening but the author never quickly skipped over something to move on to something else. The time period that it was set in (1912) was very interesting and showed what it was like in 1912 in both England and Egypt. This book had the concept of a curse in it, but despite not believing in curses, I still found this book realistic. I felt like I knew all the characters really well and therefore was scared, happy, anxious, and worried for the characters throughout reading this book. The story was good vocabulary including names, places, and artefacts that originally come from Egypt. The heroin/main character is Lillian, whose characteristic is intelligent, adventurous and bold. The book has a feeling of a classic adventure book with the theme being Egypt. Lillian leaves the hospital knowing that somehow she must save her Grandad no matter what the cost. 
Ezra told Lillian that the vase belonged in Egypt and unable to say anymore because of a sudden fit of coughs.
Shaken, she asks her Grandad who’s getting worse by the day about it. One day Ezra falls ill with Lillian being such a curious person she opens the parcel to find a strange vase. It was through this story telling that he passed the love for that specific country on to his granddaughter. Lillian doesn’t like school very much and has very few friends, she likes to listen to her Grandad recite stories of when he used to go travelling back in his young, although Lillian’s Grandad, whose name’s Ezra, have been to many different countries he has always been most fascinated with Egypt. She is a smart girl with a scholarship to a school called St Kilda’s. The year is 1922 with the main focus being on a young school girl called Lillian Kaye.
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