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UGH. WHEREIN EVERYONE ACTS LIKE A MORON. 105% of the problems in this book were due to everyone suddenly dropping 50 IQ points.
I understand that the next books are better, so I'm hopeful, but this one. UGH. The melodrama of OMG RAMSES HAS A DAUGHTER, BUT NO SHE'S NOT HIS DAUGHTER AND BECAUSE NO ONE BOTHERED TO EXPLAIN IT TO NEFRET SHE HARES OFF AND MARRIES A MURDERER. AND MEANWHILE NO ONE BOTHERS TO CLUE IN DAVID ABOUT THE WHOLE FORGERY THING, AND AMELIA AND EMERSON ARE PRETTY MUCH LALALA WHATEVER ABOUT EVERYTHING BECAUSE NO ONE IS CAPABLE OF ACTING LIKE AN ADULT IN THIS STORY...
I really like Elizabeth Peters' stories for the most part, but when she goes off on that rare melodrama tangent I want to toss the book out the window. Fortunately she's really only done that kind of crap one other time - when Amelia was kidnapped by Sethos so he could proclaim his TRUE LOVE to her.
I'm not sure if Peters writes drunk every once in a while or what. XD
