As I said in an earlier post, Elizabeth Peters is one of my favorite authors, and Amelia Peabody one of my favorite characters.
The flaws I find in the series are with the Sethos, Ramses and Nefret characters. The courtship between Ramses and Nefret was just annoying, and Sethos, who turns out to be Radcliffe Emerson's half-brother, too contrived.
Nevertheless, I still enjoy reading the books, though I confess I skip through them to find only certain passages, although eventually, I end up reading the entire book. What's fascinating about these books is simply the insight provided into the "Golden Age of Egyptology" - back in the days when Tutankhamen's tomb could actually be found, with tons of treasure in it, all the famous names of archaeology like Petrie, Howard Carter and so on...
Anyway, I confess I haven't kept up on the latest entries in the saga, but I picked them up from the library yesterday and am making my way through them. (Good old library.)
Amelia Peabody's Egypt is a book I really recommend - a mixture of fiction (treating the Peabody clan as if they really existed) and non-fiction, revealing Egypt as it really was in the 1920s - a lot of fun!
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