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A review by cheryl6of8
The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
4.0
I have written at least two reviews of this book, but they have vanished into internet land and will likely never be seen again. This is my latest attempt.
First, this is a fun series with fun characters and decent mysteries. I was given a handful from the series by a friend cleaning out her shelves years ago and I read them in no particular order and enjoyed them. I have traded them with a couple other friends who also enjoyed them. The Egyptology angle is different and makes these books unique in many ways, although when you have a bad memory for details in mysteries, "they were excavating an Egyptian tomb and somethine weird happened" will not be a distinguishing feature for the series.
I picked up the audiobook version when I was in need of something for a weekend road trip to Rhode Island -- I could not tell from the synopsis if I had already read this book, for the reasons stated above. But it had been awhile since I last hung out with Peabody and Emerson and I thought it would be fun. It was very nice and I quickly realized that I had read it but did not recall whodunit, so it was no strain to ear-read it again. I loved the reader on this book, Susan O'Malley, and will actually keep an eye out for more of her audiobook work because it was that good. I never truly appreciated the purple prose and overly Victorian tone of all the writing until I heard it read aloud. I gained a new concept of Peabody and Emerson and Ramses and all the rest from hearing the book and not merely reading it on the page. And I enjoyed the mystery again.
First, this is a fun series with fun characters and decent mysteries. I was given a handful from the series by a friend cleaning out her shelves years ago and I read them in no particular order and enjoyed them. I have traded them with a couple other friends who also enjoyed them. The Egyptology angle is different and makes these books unique in many ways, although when you have a bad memory for details in mysteries, "they were excavating an Egyptian tomb and somethine weird happened" will not be a distinguishing feature for the series.
I picked up the audiobook version when I was in need of something for a weekend road trip to Rhode Island -- I could not tell from the synopsis if I had already read this book, for the reasons stated above. But it had been awhile since I last hung out with Peabody and Emerson and I thought it would be fun. It was very nice and I quickly realized that I had read it but did not recall whodunit, so it was no strain to ear-read it again. I loved the reader on this book, Susan O'Malley, and will actually keep an eye out for more of her audiobook work because it was that good. I never truly appreciated the purple prose and overly Victorian tone of all the writing until I heard it read aloud. I gained a new concept of Peabody and Emerson and Ramses and all the rest from hearing the book and not merely reading it on the page. And I enjoyed the mystery again.