My thoughts on... La pirámide inmortal by Javier Sierra

⭐⭐ (2/5)

I discovered Javier Sierra when I read "La ruta prohibida y otros enigmas de la historia", a non-fiction book where Sierra explains us all the investigations he has been making through years of writing historical fiction. I loved that book and I recommend it to everyone who likes to know the other version of stories, conspiracy theories or what historians decided to hide from us and why. 

Javier Sierra has been writing historical fiction for more than twenty years. He is a journalist so his documentation work is impeccable. He wants to tell us everything he has learned through his trips around the world. His books are mostly settled in Spain but he has other books located in Egypt, Italy, or South America. I can't even name all the things he talks about in his books because there are a lot. If you would like to know more I will link here his webpage. (Have a look, it's packed with information about his books, his documentation works and his trips).

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For sure at this point you will be wondering how come I gave this book only two stars if I think its author is so awesome. In "La pirámide inmortal", we are brought to the year when Napoleon decided to invade Egypt. This book tries to give an explanation to that event and mixes it with the beliefs around the powers that the Great Pyramid of Giza presumably had to make a person become inmortal. The story was basically a mess. There were a lot of characters and none of them had a real reason to be in the story, they were not fully developed. The plot was going back and forth in time and it followed two different stories that crossed paths at the end of the book, and it all seemed very improbable.

I can't judge all his books just by reading one of his novels and I am sure that in the future I will try to read another of his books and I really hope they are better than this one because I feel like he is a great journalist and that he is a very interesting person. 

If you feel curious about the facts, Napoleon's time in Egypt and why it is believed that the Great Pyramid of Gisa can give inmortality, I would recommend you to read the explanation about the book that Javier Sierra has on his website rather than reading the book. Believe me, the story itself is very interesting and cramped with unsolved mysteries.