He Shall Thunder In The Sky is the second of Elizabeth Peters’ books that I’ve read. I’m now planning to go back and read all of that series, as well as anything else of hers I can get my hands on. I recommend this series to anyone who’s interested in ancient Egypt and likes to read cozies. The author, by the way, is an egyptologist herself.
Amelia Peabody Emerson’s spirited feminism, clothed in a genteel package, is both nurturing and beguiling. I kept picturing Helena Bonham Carter, whom you may recall as a lead actress in A Room with a View, as Nefret. Ramses is downright sexy, in body and mind. I read complaints about characters who seem too good or too perfect to be true, but I believe this can be done well, and when it is it draws the reader in completely. Charismatic characters bring me back to an author again and again. Elizabeth Peters masters this. But then anyone who’s studied the Egyptian Pharoahs would know a thing or two about charismatic characters.
