She

I chose the book, She: A History of Adventure by H Rider Haggard, for my H book. I wanted something that wasn't a classic and that wasn't too contemporary. I believe this book came out around the same time as The Jungle Book and it has the same sort of feel.

It follows two men on a mysterious adventure deep into the jungle. An old chest with an ancient story on a shard of pot leads them to believe that a great queen simply named, She, is the murderess of a long gone relative and that he must exact revenge upon her.

While the storyline is interesting, it is a bit typical of an adventure novel. I will say though that it was probably near the first of its kind and I'm probably just late to pick it up. The speech gets a tad tiresome as it's all "thou must, thou shalt," and a whole lot of other very proper ways of speaking.

As a whole, the book was good. Not great, the speech killed it for me, but a good adventure story.

Ps, sorry for the standard internet-searched photo. I'm still in Chicago and don't have anywhere to upload pictures!