Ever have that book that you just can’t seem to finish? And there is no good reason why you haven’t finished it? You like the characters and the subject and yet you just can’t seem to get to the last page?
This book was that book for me. I started The Curse of the Pharoahs : An Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters on my plane back from NYC in March. Finally finished it two days ago. Sure I read a couple of other books in between now and then, but man, it was like this book was generating new pages after I put it down every night.
I finally prevailed.
This is the second in a series of seventeen (so far) mysteries with the same character, Amelia Peabody. Despite it taking so long to get through, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Its so many things I love rolled together: a good mystery, an independent female protagonist, and Egyptian archaeology.
I look forward to my next visit with Peabody and Emerson. However, I’m not sure how excited I am for their young son, Ramses, to have more of a role in their future adventures. In this book he was left back in England with an aunt, but I suspect he’ll end up in Egypt with his parents in the future.
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