But none of it feels forced or out of place.
#PHARAOH CLEOPATRA GAME PALATIAL ESTATE SERIES#
While the first book in this series only had the magical elixir, this book has several more supernatural elements. Minor spoilers no animals were harmed or even made to feel bad during the course of the main story. And since animals live in the moment, they’re even more suited to immortality than humans are. Her, her faithful immortal servants, her garden, and most appealingly her immortal pet.
Bektaten makes her first appearance in the prologue, and the entire book could have easily been all about her. Specifically the woman who created it in the first place, and a little bit about what she’s been up to for the last few millennia. Ramses and Julie are starting what they hope is the beginning of an eternal love-affair, but if you think that the sex acts are only going to be 1male/1female then you obviously haven’t read much Anne Rice.īut the story doesn’t just focus on how Ramses and his closest friends deal with immortality we’re also treated to the history of the elixir of immortality itself. I’m not sure why imagining all the things that wealth can buy or create is such a fantasy for Rice, but it’s always fun to watch.Īnd of course there’s sex. His contributions blend seamlessly with the original novel, and the prose here is exactly what I’ve come to love about anything by Anne Rice.Īll the characters feel everything intensely. Settings and clothes are described in striking detail. As with most of Anne Rice’s stories, there’s at least two sections where the characters take advantage of mind-boggling amounts of money (and time, and skill, and impeccable taste of course) to do things like bring a failing estate back to life, or renovate an entire castle that’s been falling apart. Apparently in this case though Christoper wrote the bulk of the story, and created some fascinating new characters. I was a little concerned about Anne Rice’s son getting co-writing credit for this I haven’t had a chance to read any of his books, and many times when one of my favorite authors has a co-writer it ends up feeling like the main author’s style gets watered down. If all of the above sounds like something out of a fantasy soap-opera, well it is, gloriously so. It’s been a long wait, but readers finally get to learn what happened next. The book finishes with the statement “The Adventures of Ramses The Damned Shall Continue.” The murderous queen (who spent two thousand years as a corpse before Ramses brought her back to life) wastes no time in seducing a doctor and planning to track down Ramses and everyone he cares about.
Meanwhile, Ramses’s former lover Queen Cleopatra awakens in a remote hospital in the Egyptian wilderness, having somehow survived the fiery train explosion that should have destroyed her. At the end of Anne Rice’s The Mummy, the centuries-old Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the Damned has given the elixir of immortality to his lover Julie Stratford, the heiress who first introduced him to the world of Edwardian England.
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