The Falcon at the Portal
Written by Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Elizabeth Peters
Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.
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Reviews for The Falcon at the Portal
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book marked the end of my interest in the Amelia Peabody mysteries, Ramses angst in this and later books became incredibly annoying, and I felt that Nefret acted absurdly out of character in this book. Also, Amelia's character changed after the first book in the series Crocodile on the Sandbank, and she was never quite as much fun.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5There was great character developement in this installment of the Amelia Peabody series. There were more surprises and twists regarding Amelia's family than there were involving mysteries.All of the surprises made this one of my favorites in the series!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A wonderfully complex, beautifully written book with an interesting plot and, as usual, colorful characters.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5::sigh:: Sometimes you just need a good romance. And this is one of Peters' best. I think I'm a bit in love with Ramses myself.I usually try to space these out a bit, but I think I'm going to have to go directly to He Shall Thunder in the Sky. . .
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm enjoying this series so much that I suspect that I won't look at anything by another writer until I've reached the most recent. This book starts in London in 1911 as David marries Lia, Amelia's niece. While the young couple are off on honeymoon the Emersons discover that someone has been selling forged antiquities masquerading as David and, to add insult to injury, claiming that they come from Abdullah's, his grandfather, personal collection. The action quickly switches to Egypt, where the whole family become drawn into a series of events the consequences of which will change the lives of the Emerson clan forever. This is possibly the best book in the series so far as some of the scenes, particularly to the latter part of the book, are moving and sad, but as always coupled with the thrilling high camp humour that is at the core of the series.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is my favorite of all her novels about Amelia Peabody Emerson. Most of the others are more fun, but none of them is more affecting.