The Amelia Peabody stories require not only a wide range of accents in both male and female voices. She is, without doubt, the most versatile narrator I have encountered on Audible. I continue to be amazed by the astounding talents of narrator Barbara Rosenblat. Much of the last half of the tale creates a good deal of suspense and laughter. The plot involves a search for the alleged murderer of a woman, led by the actual murderer discovery of a tomb below the floor of the Valley of the Kings a collapse of the tomb roof trapping Amelia the saving of Amelia by Ramses freeing an old friend from powerful delusions about an Egyptian princess and Vandergelt's infatuation with and engagement to an Englishwoman involved in the princess delusions matter.
Ramses and his friend David Todros have spent the summer with a sheik and his tribe and are consequently much more mature than the previous year. Ramses is 16 and is 6 feet tall, Nefret is 19 and has begun to take classes at a London medical school for women. In the 3 years since the previous book, the Emersons' son, Ramses, and their adopted daughter, Nefret, have aged and grown. In this 9th book in the Amelia Peabody series, she delivers one of her best! The year is 1903. Her over-the-top vocalizations bring a wry humor to the already fun story.Įlizabeth Peters can always be depended on to write an entertaining tongue in cheek adventure, containing mysteries, at least one murder, danger and wry commentary on the social mores of the day. As usual, the vocal stylings of Barbara Rosenblatt are spot on. Overall, this was a nice return to the Amelia Peabody mysteries of old, but with new voices, new characters, the return of old favorites, and a much more dramtic turn than we've seen before. I would rather have had her break the Manuscript H sections into seperate chapters, but she's the writer, not me. While I liked the addition of a new voice that allows for a perspective different from Amelia Peabody's, I found the way Peters chose to insert them into the novel annoying. Also new to this book is the addition of "Manuscript H," which provides a fictionalized voice to the adventures of Ramses, Nefret, and David. The addition of David, the only good thing to come out of The Hippopotamus Pool, provides a refreshing new voice to the series and loving foil to Ramses and Nefret. With this book, Peters has pushed the children into their middle to late teens, which provides for new an interesting voices to combat the bombastic Emerson and the lovingly know-it-all Amelia. Back is the fun dialogue, the satiric eye-wink of a mystery, and wonderful banter between Emerson and Amelia. After the disaster that was The Hippopotamus Pool, Seeing a Large Cat is a refreshing return to the novels of old.
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