The Curse of the Pharaohs

Posted on 14 June 2018 by Elizabeth Peters

Victorian Amelia Peabody continues to journal her Egypt adventures, toddler Ramses left in England Husband Radcliffe Emerson s old friend Lady Baskerville fears a curse killed her husband Sir Henry, and soon engages the attentions of American Cyrus The will funds continued excavation But a lady dressed in white floats, flutters, spreads fear, anddeath. Read The Curse of the Pharaohs author Elizabeth Peters – kino-fada.fr I enjoyed this less than the first book in the series, partly because a lot of it was so similar to that book An archaeological dig is in peril due to local superstitions about a curse, exacerbated by disappearances, ghostly sightings and deaths If I hadn t just read the first book last month, I might have liked it better.I also missed some of the cast from the first book Walter and Evelyn were absent, and there were no new characters who balanced the intensity of Amelia and Emerson w...The second book in the series and I enjoyed it every bit as much as I did the first It s the two main characters who absolutely make these books There is Amelia Peabody who believes herself to be the most intelligent person in any room and sometimes she is, just not always Don t try to tell her that though She is one of those fabulous Victorian women who went out as explorers, riding camels or donkeys in this case in the desert and crawling around in hot, dirty excavations in totally uns The second book in the series and I enjoyed it every bit as much as I did the first It s the two main ...So the other day I got into a mock fight with some Goodreader s over the relative merits of Ms Elizabeth Peters and her Amelia Peabody series For the uninitiated over the course of the series Mrs Amelia Peabody Emerson, her cranky but brilliant Egyptologist husband Emerson, their semi psycho brilliant son Ramses, adopted daughter Nefret and a host of other s who wander in and out of the narrative wander around Victorian era Egypt discovering tombs and solving murders and eventually getting So the other day I got into a mock fight with some Goodreader s over the relative merits of Ms Elizabeth Pet...Such a fun read I loved every page of it Who doesn t love a feisty heroine and a good murder mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat guessing until the very end2017 Summer Lovin Reading List It s official I adore Amelia Peabody Emerson Modern feminist sensibilities injected into a Victorian heroine She loves her husband and her son, but she needs some mental stimulation and some physical labour to keep her occupied.I loved that Radcliffe and Amelia have nicknamed their precocious son Ramses after the demanding and flamboyant Pharaoh He takes after both of his parents, needless to say, in his intelligence and his firm opinions I appreciate A2017 Summer Lovin Reading List It s official I adore Amelia Peab...Warning this review will involve spoilers for those who haven t read the previous book Five years have supposedly passed since the events of the series opener, Crocodile on the Sandbank Many of the comments in my review of that one, www.goodreads.com review show 83042190 , are relevant here as well This would give us the date of 1889, with Amelia now 37 years old By the close of the first book, she and Radcliffe Emerson were married so strictly speaking, she s now Amelia Emerson, but he s Warning this review will involve spoilers for those who haven t read the previous book Five years have supposedly passed since the events of the series opener, Crocodile on the Sandbank Many of the comments in my review of that one, www.goodreads.com review show 83042190 , are relevant here as well This would give us the date of 1889, with Amelia now 37 years old By the close of the first book, she and Radcliffe Emerson were married so strictly speaking, she s now Amelia Emerson, but he still calls her Peabody as a nickname , and expecting their first child He s now a precocious toddler, with an out sized personality like his dad s his real name is Walter, after Emerson s brother, but he s nicknamed Ramses after the flamboyant Ramses II Parenthood has kept the couple in England, though chafing to return to their beloved Egyptian archaeol...3.5 I want to quote V Gingerich s wonderful review because it says it all The Curse of the Pharaohs is all about voice Amelia Peabody s voice This detective, Egyptologist, and mother of one narrates with wit and humor, puncturing Victorian decorum with her steel tipped parasol, amazing the reader with her sometimes stupid bravery and her unique way of both adoring and defying her Egyptologist husband Elizabeth Peters is Agatha Christie in an ancient Egyptian wig and headdress Same train 3.5 I want to quote V Gingerich s wonderful review because it says it all The Curse of the Pharaohs is all about voice Amelia Peabody s voice This detective, Egyptologist, and mother of one narrates with wit and humor, puncturing Victorian decorum with her steel tipped parasol, amazing the reader with her sometimes stupid bravery and her unique way of both adoring and defying her Egyptologist husband Elizabeth Peters is Agatha Christie in an ancient Egyptian wig and headdress Same train travel, same cast of startlingly unlikable characters the kind where you want ...Imagine, if you will, that Lady Catherine de Bourgh from Pride and Prejudice is reincarnated towards the middle of the nineteenth century as a woman called Amelia Peabody She develops an interest in archaeology, and marries an Egyptologist who is supposed, I think, to be stirringly alpha male but who is in fact emotionally and physically abusive She delights in establishing how intelligent and feisty she is by denigrating other women, and spawns an obnoxiously precocious offspring who has a cu Imagine, if you will, that Lady Catherine de Bourgh from Pride and Prejudice is reincarnated towards the middle of the nineteenth century as a woman called Amelia Peabody She develops an interest in archaeology, and marries an Egyptologist who is supposed, I think, to be stirringly alpha male but who is in fact emotionally and physically abusive She delights in establishing how intelligent and feisty she is by denigrating other women, and spawns an obnoxiously precocious offspring who has a cutesy nickname, an even cutesier speech impediment and the ability to ...On this listen of this old favourite I was truly appreciative of Peters skill as an author The book is told as if it were Amelia Peabody s journal, but still Peters manages very cleverly to give us several views of all the wild twists and turns in the story We aren t limited to Amelia s viewpoint because although she is a keen observer she isn t very self aware, and though she is very intelligent she often draws the wrong conclusions It not only makes for an interesting puzzle it makes for s On this listen of this old favourite I was truly appreciative of Peters skill as an author The book is told as if it were Amelia Peabody s journal, but still Peters manages very cleverly to give us several views of all the wild twists and turns in the story We aren t limited to Am...Reviewed for THC Reviews The Curse of the Pharaohs was another fun installment in the Amelia Peabody mystery adventure series The story begins with Amelia and Radcliffe Emerson enjoying the bliss of married life back in England, but their seemingly idyllic existence isn t exactly placid thanks to an incredibly precocious four year old running amok At the same time, life holds no real challenge for Emerson who is now a professor of archeology at the university and Amelia who has been reduced to Reviewed for THC Reviews The Curse...

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14 June 2018

Elizabeth Peters