The immortal Ramses is awakened in the early twentieth century. He finds love but jeopardizes everything to pursue a woman who enchanted him centuries ago.
My thoughts
Romance is really at the heart of this book. The romance between Ramses and Julie was fun to read, but it wasn't convincing. He falls in love with the first woman he lays eyes on? Really? She inspires the same passion in him that Cleopatra did? Cleopatra, one of the strongest, craftiest, and most legendary figures in all of history.
What I really wanted to see was the romance between Ramses and Cleopatra. There was real drama there - she awakened him from his first sleep, he tutored her, and he fell in love with her. Then she started to assert herself and took up with that good-for-nothing Mark Antony. She broke his heart and Ramses refused to give the elixir of life to Antony at Cleopatra's request. I kept thinking that would have been way more entertaining to read about than Ramses roaming around modern England and Egypt. And then he stumbled onto a mummy who had been Cleopatra in life and resurrected her. It was a brilliant twist and that's when the story really picked up. Cleopatra was consumed with hatred for Ramses. Ramses was forced to realize that the ravages of time had not been kind to Cleopatra, and the monster running amok in Cairo was not the woman he had once loved. But now she was immortal. And he was the only one who could possibly stop her.
Bottom line
Really good. The action moves quickly and there's a lot of it. This made me an Anne Rice fan and I'll definitely read more of her books in the future.
Fine print
The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, by Anne Rice
Genre: fiction
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I borrowed this book from the library
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