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I think I slightly preferred the first book in this series, rather than this one, as far as a plot goes. Maybe that was because everyone was new to me, but I was pleased to get back to Amelia and Emerson. I love their banter between each other, and now they have a young son to add to it. And so the humour continues.
In this book, the pair leave their son with relatives, to go back to Egypt at the request of an acquaintance of Emerson's, who husband started an archaeological dig but died before he ...more
In this book, the pair leave their son with relatives, to go back to Egypt at the request of an acquaintance of Emerson's, who husband started an archaeological dig but died before he ...more
The second book in the Amelia Peabody series proves to have the same recipe of adventuresome mystery as the first. Now married to the surly Radcliffe Emerson, Amelia has not lost her zeal for Egyptology even though is mother to a precocious toddler nicknamed Ramses.
While the plot of the second book is bit more frenetic, and at times overdone, it is still a fine read, splendid with detail and crackling dialogue.
Verdict: continue on with the series.
While the plot of the second book is bit more frenetic, and at times overdone, it is still a fine read, splendid with detail and crackling dialogue.
Verdict: continue on with the series.
Amelia is such a humorous character with her sense of superiority of intelligence that reminded me of Temperance Brennen on BONES, and Emerson's bluster was fun too. Interesting plot.
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