3.0 out of 5 stars
Another enjoyable installment but quite disappointing with regard to Ramses
Especially after having recently re-read Children of the Storm, the characters in this book all seem so flat compared with their usual panache.
Also, Ramses having meaningless sex with a new stranger while everyone else is in peril, including his beloved Nefret, is the height of bad taste, and not true to the character at all. Daria has no redeeming features, and the psychobabble to explain Nefret’s supposed frigidity is just too terrible for words.
Really, I want to see the whole family solve mysteries, have adventures, not read about their romantic troubles.
And making Sethos the master criminal virtually harmless is just to silly for words, and also foreshadows the friendships between the characters which chronologically comes way later in the series.
If she is going to go back in time, why not to the good old early days with Ramses as a baby/child!! Instead of making them all seem so puerile when they are in their 20s. I loved the early Amelia and Emerson. Ramses lacks the heroic stature of his father.
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