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Summary: lots of fun
Review: I am a huge fan of the Amelia Peabody books! This one was great, but it took awhie to get into it. The mystery was not as exciting as some of the others and there weren't many twists, but that was OK. Amelia and Emerson are, as usual, very humorous and fun. Nefret and Ramses are great to read about too. And the newest addition to the Emerson's... the Great Cat of Re... is tons of fun. However, I WOULD NOT read this book as a first. I would definately start with Crocodile on the Sandbank, or, if you just can't wait, The Ape Who Guards the Balance. There are some things in The Golden One that would give away some important stuff.
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Summary: The Golden One is 100% Gold
Review: Elizabeth Peters is at her best once again! I can't get enogh of this Emerson clan.
This new adventure brings back Jamil, the youngest son of Yusuf and trickster of the Emerson's. He claims that he has found a new tomb. But before Amelia can interogate Jamil, he dies... but with his last words are"in the hand of the God" huh?
Then "Mr. Smith" whose true name is hyphenated and unpronouncable, asks Ramses to found out if Ismail Pasha is Sethos gone traitor or Sethos just really getting involved in his role... and since Ramses is such a nice family man, he agrees.
It takes him to Gaza, under cover in the labour corps. Must i say that his family also went to Gaza in disguise. Emerson as an Arab (Don't forget the beard!!) with 2 wives. Amelia his chief wife and Nefret his "favorite". Their reis also attends the lastest adventure, as a servant or something to Emerson.
Once Ramses' mission is complete and i will not give away anything on that account, They return to luxor to excavate with The Vandergelt's. Bertie is showing real promise and making Cyrus 'gosh-durn proud'. Nefret has her own little secret that she reveals and it's quite a shocker...and the way Emerson behaves with the news is...cute!
This is a great read... took me a day and half to read... and i've read it twice since then. I hope Ms. Peters hurrys up and writes another book in the series, i want to see how Sennia reacts to Nefrets news!!!
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Summary: Just couldn't get "into" this book
Review: I love this series but just couldn't get interested in this book; I almost had to make myself finish it. If you are a loyal fan you will get much more enjoyment out of this book than if it is the first time you have read the series. A bit predictable
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Summary: Her characters are feeling like old friends
Review: I just love this series, fun, witty, intersting - they are a mystery, action, comedy, romance, historical fiction and documentary rolled into one. Golden One is mystery and spy action set with backdrop of WWI and egyptology, with the emerson family behind the scenes all for one and one for all activities. Satisfying in itself but makes more sense having read the series. I haven't felt this good about characters since Laurie R King's "Mary Russel". So excited that there are more to come.
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Summary: Another Fabulous Elizabeth Peters Read
Review: I love the whole Amelia Peabody series that Elizabeth Peters has written. You get to know and love the whole huge cast of characters. They are funny, touching, suprising and filled with wonderful information about Egypt. The Golden One was SUPERB.
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Summary: Amelia does it again, and with style
Review: I am a big fan of historical novels and buy a lot when they become paperbacks; however, there are three authors that are so good I will only pay their novels in hardback. They are keepers, and re-readers! The entire Amelia Peabody series by Peters is worth owning due to the following facts: the author has done her homework and knows a great deal about Egyptian archeology; every book has excellent characterization (where she actually allows her characters to evolve and grow mentally, emotionally, as well as physically); tight complex plots with a fresh humorous twist; and a sensitivity to other cultures. By the way, the other two authors who excel in this field are Anne Perry and Laurie King.
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Summary: A really fine read.
Review: Peters is back in form with this latest entry in The Peabody Lexicon. By any means it is a great improvement over "Lord of the Silent". Lets hope that Nefret gives birth without difficulty to a fine healthy boy who takes after Ramses to the T. It will help put the spark back into this mystery series. In a sense it is a shame that Peters choose to have Nefret lose her first child, even though it was sired by that idiot she had chosen to marry. That child could easilly have provided some spunk to the series.
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Summary: Delightful Egypt Adventure
Review: Emerson and Amelia Peabody have a new archeological dig, Ramses is overjoyed with his wife, and Amelia's adoptive family continues to grow, but all is not well in World War I era Egypt. Tomb robbers have discovered an ancient temple and are sneaking artifacts out, and are willing to kill Emerson and Amelia to preserve their treasure. The British army has bogged down outside of Gaza and its intelligence community desperately wishes to get Ramese back in the fold. And somehow, Amelia has to manage all of this while hoping that she will soon become a grandmother. Naturally, Sethos--Emerson's half brother and something of a love interest for Amelia is back and in the midst of both tomb robbing and the war. Author Elizabeth Peters has created a wonderful set of characters in the extended Emerson family. Emerson's bull-headedness, Ramses's honor, Sethos's deviousness and overcompensated inferiority complex, and Amelia's proper British manipulativeness all ring true and consistent through the novel and, indeed, through the series. THE GOLDEN ONE does not integrate World War I with the archeological elements of the story as well as some of the earlier novels in the series (perhaps because the Turks have been driven further from Egypt), but is otherwise a delightful adventure. Readers new to this series may find Amelia's proper Britishisms somewhat off-putting but; for me at least, these have become familiar friends and amusing reminders of a time when the British really thought that they had a great moral lesson to share with the world. Peters certainly knows her Egypt and makes this great period of Archeology and Egyptology come to life.
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Summary: Two for the price of one
Review: Unlike many series where you can just jump in with any book, this series should begin as the author has written it, in chronological order. You meet the characters as they meet each other, and form relationships, can create their histories which are as much a part of any book in the series as is the history of Ancien Egypt. There are constant references to past adventures, and the reader who begins other than at the beginning will be confused.
Fortunately they are all delightful, and reading the first naturally leads into the second, and so on. The latest is particularly delightful, and the bargain book in the entire series. There are two separate plots in the book, and it could have ended with the resolution of the first. The second simply feels like a another book. Very generous of Ms. Peters, but just a bit odd. The characters are vividly drawn, the action exciting, and there's lots of historical/cultural information. Do read!
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Summary: Back to old form I say!!!
Review: I am such a huge fan of this series and I was bitterly disappointed by "The Lord of the Silent", but that could just have been that the whole Ramses and Nefret thing was solved as was the tension and the book seemed pale in comparison to 4 previous ones. However, Peters has come back in top form with a story that combines her classic Egyptian mystery as well as military intrigue. The story occurs the in 1917, which means thankfully WWI will be over soon, and involves every reader's favorite characters. We also get the dead body, ruined shirts, and dry humor throughout. A joy to read even if Nefret's "secret" is very obvious. Also a gold star for Elizabeth Peters for using the word "penultimate".
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