Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 1/25/2019 + 1032 more book reviews

Seventh in the series. Amelia and Emerson leap at the chance to leave the kids at home and head for Egypt on their own. As soon as they get there, attempts are made to grab each of them, ostensibly to obtain information leading to a fabulous lost city only they know of. Emerson gets kidnapped only to be rescued by Amelia with a little help from friends. But, oh no, Emerson has amnesia and doesn't even remember he's married. There's nothing to do but follow him into the desert as he goes about his life as it was before he met Amelia, except of course the bad guys are still after them.
I wanted to like this series. I can see the things that made it so popular - it's got that sort of slapstick set-up, the characters are amusing, the dialogue is witty, and the exotic location plus actual real history. I have liked the first ones, so perhaps for me it suffered from being read out of order, although there's certainly enough backstory given that I wasn't lost. I especially liked the letters from Ramses - in the last one I read he was only about 5. But this story was so leisurely, and so convoluted, that it took me days to get through it. I kept putting it down in favor of almost anything else. I knew who the spy in the midst was very early on, which didn't help. Perhaps if I'd been more careful to read them in order...I have most of this series in my TBR stack, and because I've enjoyed others I will give at least one more of them a try.

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