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Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

Elizabeth Peters

Start date: September 12, 2020

Finish date: October 9, 2020

Discussion: Buddy reads

Why we're reading this: We have some Elizabeth Peters fans in the group, and decided to buddy read the first Amelia Peabody book.
[close] We have some Elizabeth Peters fans in the group, and decided to buddy read the first Amelia Peabody book.

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Aug 08, 2018 Leslie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, mysteries, historical-fiction

I had forgotten many of the details of this first book in the Amelia Peabody series and this audiobook edition was a nice way to refresh my memory. Susan O'Malley did a decent narration though the characters didn't sound very English to my American ear (a quite minor point).

One of the aspects I had forgotten was how much of a satire of Gothic novels this was. Evelyn must have swooned about 8 times, putting her fairly high on the Gothic novel scale shown below:

And there is a monster:

And it takes ...more

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Oct 07, 2013 Jazzy Lemon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This reminds me of one of those boring and badly lit programmes that is aired at 10 am on a Sunday morning that you change channels on if you come across it. The story went on and on slowly but in quite an uninteresting manner, and the way the story wrapped up was insulting. I'm thankful to have come to the end of it. ...more

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Sep 07, 2020 Jill rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: elizabeth-peters

I really liked this a lot. Amelia Peabody is a great character, self-reliant, confident, in fact rather pushy, but with a sense of humour and a good heart. I don't normally like romance in books, but I found Amelia's story to be entertaining, Evelyn's was somewhat sad and her fainting did get a bit too much for me. The setting being in Egypt, did convey the heat and sand, and the need for suitable clothing.
I will definitely read on in this series and hope the books are as entertaining and lively ...more

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Jun 17, 2013 Lynnie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audible, read-in-2023, egypt, archaeology-suspense, read-in-2010s, read-in-2000s, historical-mystery, gothic-romance, all-time-favourites, victorian-era

A comfort reread. (4th time).
It's funny and I adore Amelia Peabody, it was good to revisit.

5th reread - listened to the audio narrated by Barbara Rosenblat. Just brilliant. ...more

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Sep 05, 2012 Leslie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries, historical-fiction

Sept. 2019 reread via Recorded Books audiobook narrated by Barbara Rosenblat. I love Amelia and Emerson!!

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Apr 13, 2018 Icewineanne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-mystery, mystery-pub-bookclub, audiobook

3.5 Stars rounded up to 4

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Sep 09, 2017 Serena rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, mystery

3.5 stars. Fluffy historical cozy mystery in an uncommon setting. It was very easy to guess who the villains are and the ending of the story. The continued meandering of twists and turn rapidly became annoying. I rounded it up to 4 stars because of the excellent narrator, Barbara Rosenblat.

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