I do love Amelia &c, their adventures, the archaeology, the campness of Elizabeth Peters' send up of romantic novels. But, this latest in the series, a back-fill of one of the previously empty years, seems little more than a shadow of what it should be.
The motivations of the loosely assembled bad guys seem as confused to them as they are to the reader, the characters act like wooden replicas of themselves (Nefret is pretty but a little silly, Amelia organises, Emerson shouts, Rameses is sarcastic, & so on), and there is very little of one of series' main draw cards; decent historical & archaseological information. The conclusion seems to have come as a suprise even to the author herself.
I shall re-read it, but then return it to the library with little regret. And perhaps borrow one of the better ones.Get more detail about A River in the Sky: A Novel.
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