A review by eeb123
The Painted Queen by Elizabeth Peters, Joan Hess

3.0

This is the first book I have read in the Amelia Peabody series, and I found myself wondering if I would have been more engaged if I knew the characters better. As it was, while I did enjoy aspects of the book (particularly the historical aspects), I found the plot plodding and the attempts at humor not that humorous. I did liked Amelia Peabody as a character, and the plot was interesting (though could have been shortened by a few hundred pages), so I wonder if my complaints are peculiar to this book (the last in the series and not written solely by Elizabeth Peters) or are signs that I am not the target audience (despite my enjoyment of most mystery sub-genres).


(Thank you William Morrow and Goodreads for the advance copy.)