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Lexi & Judith



The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters

I am at 35% which I did as an audio yesterday and have not made any progress today, so far I am not liking it.

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1. Has the author ever met an actual child? How old is Ramses supposed to be?
2. I thought this was published awhile ago but it is from the 80s. The causal racism and pro-Imperialism is still a bit much for the 80s. The fat shaming is right on point for the time period.
3. The anti-religious sentiment is a little heavy handed. Being anti-Coptic christian is also a really weird one.
4. Anyway, don't like the MC's relationship with her husband. Don't see why I am supposed to be finding that romantic and otherwise am bored so far. Hopefully, it will pick up the pace. I will make myself read it on the flight tomorrow.
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Spoilers are really hard to do on a phone so I’m going to wait for you but really, that book deeply annoyed me.

I wasn't a big fan of the first one. I found the lead offensive

I’ve officially started the book

I saw you liked the second one a bit better. How are you liking this one so far?

Meh, the son is annoying me. At most he’s like 7. And that might be an overestimate.

I know I might have a slight skewed view of what a 6 or 7 year old will say/do since my kid is autistic with a serious speech delay. But just no. If you want a kid to have a certain interaction level with adults, just make them older.

The racism is a bit less in book 2 than book one. But in general I’m finding Amelia to be an offensive character

I’m about 20% in. I’m listening at 1.5x because then her offensive thoughts go by faster

It gets worse as the book goes on what the seven year old child is supposedly able to do. Treatment of religion and the pro Imperialism are also really heavy handed.

Listening to this while reading Warrior Girl Unearthed, which deals with universities returning indigenous peoples remains and artifacts, is a bit jarring.

Letting him keep a pet lion like a domestic dog? What?

The relationship between Amelia and Emmerson seems to be reading different in this book too. They would always needle each other some but he's just coming across as mean half the time. I'm not sure if it's how it's written or how the narrator is reading it.

He seemed deeply condescending and rude to me the whole time. The only thing they seemed to enjoy doing together for most of the book was physical.

I'm a bit baffled people find this book cute and humorous.

around 70% through. Hopefully will finish today so I can move on to something else

Glad that’s over!

Overall meh

I thought the ending was trite and lazy writing.

I would say that’s a fair assessment and makes it hard to believe there’s like 13 more novels in the series