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  • A Woman to Treasure

  • By: Ali Vali
  • Narrated by: Paige McKinney
  • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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A Woman to Treasure

By: Ali Vali
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Summary

Levi Montbard loves history and isn’t afraid to search it out no matter where it takes her. A scroll she acquires to sell in Montbard’s Antiquities in New Orleans leads Levi on an adventure that will take her from London to Morocco, by way of the Sahara Desert. A story of a female Templar Knight should sound like a hoax, but to Levi the new information rings true. Proving the scroll accurate becomes an obsession. She’ll stop at nothing to uncover the truth.

Yasmine Hassani spends her days teaching female studies in Marrakech to women who want to leave a mark on their country. An arrogant Westerner storming into her office is highly unexpected and leaves Yasmine laughing off the absurdity of her claims. No one knows more about the history of the Templar Knights than Yasmine, and reluctantly intrigued, she agrees to help Levi.

But their search turns down one dead end after another, almost as if someone is working hard to keep old secrets buried. They’ll have to fight the Catholic Church, centuries of tradition, and their growing attraction for each other to uncover the mystery of the female Templar Knight.

©2021 Ali Vali (P)2021 Bold Strokes Books Inc
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A WOMAN TO TREASURE 👍👍

really brilliant story line of a treasure hunter who falls in love with an historian and language historian, really great characters all the way through and really brilliant narration with a happy ending as well .needs a volume two weeks 👍👍

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I couldn't suspend enough disbelief

All the ingredients are there for a great story, and there were significant chunks that were quite engaging.

Within the opening chapters, for example, one of our main characters follows centuries-old instructions to find a buried box in the swamps of the Southern US. They find it on the FIRST DAY of searching. What is this item? It is a lead box filled with mercury. At best case, this would weigh several hundred kilograms, and would probably have sunk and kept sinking until it hit bedrock. Why filled with mercury? Apparently as a presevative. Kind of makes sense - mercury would form a pretty good barrier - if the things it is meant to preserve are fully submerged in it. But almost everything floats in mercury - even lead! How were the items kept submerged in mercury? We are not told. Further, items submerged in mercury are left to "dry out" later in the story, but mercury has an incredibly high surface tension, and does not soak in to things very easily - if at all.

It's these sorts of unexplained or inexplicable things that wrenched me out of the story for me. I did listen all the way to the end, and in a way I'm glad I did - the story uncovered in this story is arguably better than the story itself. Partly because it is sparse enough on detail that nothing smashes through the unreality barrier. The main story has several occasions when things happen and I just go, "uh huh - no." If the world were presented as one in which supernatural occurrences and amazing coincidences are regular occurrences, or that there's a reason why such things might be expected, perhaps I could go along with it - but the world is presented as the factual reality we live in.

I imagine this book will go down well with people who enjoyed The DaVinci Code, even though I have not read that book. That's the sort of vibe I get.

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