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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
One the better modern mummy stories (though this could be because the recent films were terrible), this harkens back to the old black and white mummy films with the typical Anne Rice twist. I enjoyed it and the dose of nostalgia it provided.
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Typical Anne Rice.
A couple gripes with this one.
I wish Rice had written this with less fluff and romance- this could have been real great.
It was interesting in the beginning but I found it was annoying how quickly the people 'fell in love' or how much people 'loved each other' all the time and suddenly couldn't live without each other.
3 main male characters at one point had had an affair with each other- it just wasn't realistic. I understand her need to write in a gay couple, that's fine, but why does a third party get involved when the man in question is a womanizer? Didn't make any sense to me and that's when I started losing interest.
Julie Stratford- doesn't seem to care that much that her father is dead because Ramses is now the love of her life that she met 5 minutes ago and is the center of there world.
Cleopatra was quite interesting as a monster- she loved to kill and it was fun reading about her healing process as she became whole again. I loved the parts describing of her gaping wounds that wouldn't heal until she had the elixir.
I liked the fact that her and Ramses were real people in Egypt and the imagined story of their immortality.
Overall a pretty ok book- I just wanted to be finished so I can say I read The Mummy and move on to better things... I think I might be finally done with Anne Rice novels.
A couple gripes with this one.
I wish Rice had written this with less fluff and romance- this could have been real great.
It was interesting in the beginning but I found it was annoying how quickly the people 'fell in love' or how much people 'loved each other' all the time and suddenly couldn't live without each other.
3 main male characters at one point had had an affair with each other- it just wasn't realistic. I understand her need to write in a gay couple, that's fine, but why does a third party get involved when the man in question is a womanizer? Didn't make any sense to me and that's when I started losing interest.
Julie Stratford- doesn't seem to care that much that her father is dead because Ramses is now the love of her life that she met 5 minutes ago and is the center of there world.
Cleopatra was quite interesting as a monster- she loved to kill and it was fun reading about her healing process as she became whole again. I loved the parts describing of her gaping wounds that wouldn't heal until she had the elixir.
I liked the fact that her and Ramses were real people in Egypt and the imagined story of their immortality.
Overall a pretty ok book- I just wanted to be finished so I can say I read The Mummy and move on to better things... I think I might be finally done with Anne Rice novels.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
An interesting, romantic take on the mummy rises from the grave concept. Use of ableist language, though I believe it's more reflective of the late 1980s (when this was written) than the writer herself as her other works are more progressive in general.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
DNF at 70%
The characters are cardboard caricatures and are entirely unlikeable and unrelatable. The plot is sort of aimless as well and has no real momentum until the 65% mark and even then it didn’t hold my interest. Very subpar compared to Rice’s other novels.
The characters are cardboard caricatures and are entirely unlikeable and unrelatable. The plot is sort of aimless as well and has no real momentum until the 65% mark and even then it didn’t hold my interest. Very subpar compared to Rice’s other novels.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes