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The Falcon at the Portal

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

I fin­ished read­ing Eliz­a­beth Peter’s The Fal­con at the Por­tal last night and while I did enjoy it; I’m find­ing that I like the newer books in this series less and less. The idea that Ms. Peters is the Edi­tor of Emer­son family’s per­sonal papers and has assem­bled the books from the remains of Ameila’s jour­nals and some manuscripts/letters writ­ten by Ram­ses & Nefret just isn’t work­ing for me. It didn’t help that this story took a darker turn that most of the Ameila Peabody mys­ter­ies (e.g. not all of your favorite char­ac­ters walked away unscathed at the end of this book). For hav­ing a darker end than I cared for and con­tin­u­ing this trend of assem­bling the story from the “incom­plete and scat­tered papers” of the Emer­son fam­ily; I’m only giv­ing this book 3 out of 5 points.

Since I knew that I was get­ting a bit tired of a steady read­ing diet of mys­ter­ies; I didn’t bring the next Amelia Pead­body mys­tery with me. Instead, I’ll be read­ing Den­nis L. McKiernan’s Sil­ver Wolf, Black Fal­con next. Since I’m stuck at the home office all week, I will most likely fin­ish this one in the next cou­ple of days.

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