Genre: Fiction
Sub Genre: Horror; Mummy, Eternal
Life, Ramses II, Egypt
Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
Back Cover: An archaeologist has
just unearthed the find of his career, the tomb of Ramses II. The door to the
tomb is lettered with a curse, the mummy of the king who claimed to be immortal
lies shriveled inside. The archaeologist dies and the treasures are shipped to
his daughter Julie in England, who finds that the mummy comes to life as a
perfect man. Julie grows to love him and introduces him to modern life,
including the museums that purport to reconstruct his time. He becomes
disturbed and disgusted with the modern portrayal of his beloved Cleopatra.
Ramses and Julie, her ex-fiance and his father Elliott in tow, travel to Egypt.
There, Ramses is further upset by the tourist flavor given to his ancient
civilization. In one of the museums, he recognizes an "unknown"
mummified woman as his beloved Cleopatra. One night, he returns with the
immortality elixir and raises her from the dead. But Cleopatra is not restored
to her beautiful body or mind. She is a horrid monster, a walking corpse of
rotting flesh and a disoriented mind that kills without mercy. Ramses abandons
her, leaving her to Elliott, not realizing that he too is in peril. All in the
party partake of the elixir, with Cleopatra and Ramses in the shadows.
Now I know that when you see Anne Rice you mainly thing of
Vampires. But this is not one of those books. This book doesn’t have any of her
vampire characters in it. The Mummy is about Julie who meets Ramses. Ramses has
been sheltered from the world for hundreds of years. When Julie finds him she
reintroduces him to the world. But the more he learns he becomes upset with how
history is portraying his people and those he loves. The story is one that
flows well into each scene. You feel for
Ramses as he struggles with the world as well as his own demons. Julie helps
him as best she can. She is also in awe of him and the history that he has lived
through. This is actually one of my
favorite books by Anne Rice. I felt that she took this story to a whole
different level. You will love this story and put it on your reading list if
you haven’t already read it.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345369947
Pages: 416
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