Elizabeth Peters Audio Book

Elizabeth Peters: The Ape that Guards the Balance « Mervi's Book ...

The tenth book in the Amelia Peabody –series is set in the years 1906-1907 so a few years have again gone by. This is also the first Peabody book I got as an audiobook. I enjoyed the reading mostly although sometimes the reader seemed to sigh or sound bored. Of course, I’ve imagined the sound of Emerson’s voice to be quite a bit deeper than Barbara Rosenblat’s.

Like the previous book, this story is presented as a manuscript which was found among the papers the Emersons’ left behind. Even though most of the book is from Amelia’s first person point-of-view, there are two other storytellers as well. One of them is manuscript H written in third person from Rameses’ point-of-view and it’s revealed here that Ramses had written it. There are also some letters that Nefret has written to an unnamed person but whom I strongly suspect is her young friend Lia. The letters and manuscript H describe events happening behind Amelia and Emerson’s back which can be quite amusing at times.

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