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Barbara Cleverly has begun another adventure, this time with Laetitia Talbot who wants to "rock" the archaeology world and does a good job. Very good read.
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I was disappointed with the author's The Last Kashmiri Rose, the first work in a series different from the one to which this book belongs. I thought this one a better read but with the same weaknesses. Again, though not to the same degree, I thought the characters shallow and the dialog stilted, artificial. The plot was decent and the references to classical mythology and Minoan culture interesting.
Set in Crete a dozen or so years after WW1, centers around a famous archaeologist, the tensions in his household and among his friends, complicated by a mysterious death. The heroine is a modern woman, drawn with a similar level of complexity as Dorothy Sayers' Harriet Vane. This is the first book in the series. I found it engrossing reading, and I did feel very much drawn into a different mindset. It's clearly a mystery, but there's a touch of romance as well.
Rosemary F. (canadianeh) reviewed The Tomb of Zeus (Laetitia Talbot, Bk 1) on + 242 more book reviews
Here's a new heroine from Barbara Cleverly: Laetitia Talbot, and a new background: an archaeological dig in Crete. Replete with social history, I really enjoyed this excursion to a country about which I know very little: maybe a little more now. If you have enjoyed the Joe Sandilands series, I think you will like this too.
