Reviews

The Camelot Caper by Elizabeth Peters

jess_is_reading_in_abundance's review against another edition

2.0

This book was ok. It served its purpose of distracting me on my lunch breaks, but it will probably be a while before I pick up another Elizabeth Peters book. While being entertaining, she is also a bit much when it comes to the corny-ness.

Also, did anyone else wonder why there is a unicorn on the cover?

lyndann's review against another edition

3.0

Can’t help but love the silliness and humor of EP! I’ll read anything she’s written.

quietjenn's review against another edition

4.0

3 1/2. I'm about to go on a gothic romance kick, I do believe. You have been warned.

ajlewis2's review against another edition

lighthearted

2.0

Sort of a light romp of a mystery that never really grabbed me. I finished listening since it was fairly short. 

verityw's review against another edition

3.0

This one is probably only worth a look for Elizabeth Peters completists. This is from the very late 1960s and is interesting because it’s sometimes listed as a prequel to the Vicky Bliss series. It’s much less connected to that than that makes it seem – basically the connection is to “Sir John Smythe” in a way that I can’t reveal without giving some big old spoilers for Vicky Bliss. And it’s quite a minor connection – so don’t go into this expecting lots of him. And if you’ve not read Vicky Bliss (or Amelia Peabody to which its even more tenously linked) then it’s just a late 1960s thriller-slash-cozy-mystery with no murder but a lot of chasing around Britain by an American Tourist, who is being hunted down by mysterious thugs, and the charming Brit who is helping her out. Your mileage on that may vary. I’m glad I read it, but if I’d read it first, I probably wouldn’t have read the rest of the Vicky Bliss series, and that would have been a shame.

ameve2's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

ssejig's review against another edition

3.0

When the book opens, Jessica Tregarth is on the run. From whom? She doesn't know. But her bag was almost stolen (thank goodness for that policeman) and someone has searched it. Now there's someone following her. Luck provides her with the amenable people on the bus she stumbles on to. They drop her at the Blue Boar where she is supposed to meet up with a local, but instead is picked up by David Randall, gothic novelist. While he doesn't believe her story at first, being roughed up by two gentlemen soon changes his mind. Suddenly the two of them are on the run together, being chased (and chasing) the men who seem bent on getting the familial ring away from Jess.
I've read a couple of Peters's books lately and I am enjoying the fact that she mocks the very types of books that she is writing. She does it so well, having her heroine deride the characters in Gothic novels right before they themselves are kidnapped and tossed into a trunk or some other popular plot.

anntharai's review against another edition

4.0

Caper is right. A good bit of fun, quite silly at points.

bookbrig's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.25

This has a unicorn on the cover, so I perhaps set my expectations for enjoyment too high. The opening few chapters did a wonderful job of getting me hooked on the story, I just didn't really like any of it from there on. It's a fine and relatively quick read, but I don't care for this author's heroines very much, so I think I won't try another one of hers for a while.

catsbah's review against another edition

3.0

I enjoyed the clever dialogue and the unusual 'being chased by bad guys' scenes. I didn't guess the ending and thought it was fun. I would prefer her Amelia Peabody series characters over these ones, but still entertaining.