by Elizabeth Peters
Today is a sad day Im so bummed this was the last book in the series! Im going to miss John & Vicky & Schmidt! I felt like I knew them so well & If i didnt know better, the stories were real & they are too. Lol going to try the other Peters series & hope it compares to this one!
I so wanted this book to appear, bought it in hardcover the day of its release, read it right away—and was a bit disappointed. The bloom was off the series rose, I thought.I was wrong. Re-reading it now, after the author's death last year, I realize she was saying goodbye to a set of well-loved char...
It's been awhile since I've read a Vicky Bliss novel, so I just couldn't get into this one. I seem to have forgotten the characters' histories and the exact nature of their relationships, but also, the dialogue seemed unnatural to me. This just didn't capture my interest; maybe if I reread the oth...
June's reading group book. Not sure I'll bother again. Mildly entertaining - a museum type (it's never made exactly clear what she does) gets embroiled in the stealing of King Tut's mummy. Yup, it's that outlandish. She sort of solves it, assisted by an antiques dealer who used to the an antiques th...
A relatively mediocre Elizabeth Peters is way better than most other authors'.
I loved the earlier Vicky Bliss novels a lot. This one I liked, although mostly because I was happy to see all the characters again. Like a slightly dull weekend with some very dear friends. There was one chapter that had me laughing out loud, but for most of the way this just didn't sparkle for ...
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