As usual, I enjoyed Anne Rice's lush world where anything is possible. Her protagonists stay compassionat and human, even while they struggle/rejoice in not being. Immortal Ramses chooses to resurrect Cleopatra even though not knowing what the consequences might be and then spends much of his time feeling guilty and puzzling what to do about it. Of course, a villain arises who wants to capture the secret of immortality for his own selfish ends... (Not that Ramses actions were unselfish...) A great vacation from reality.
I have now started another Phryne Fisher Mystery, Away With The Fairies, by Kerry Greenwood. A children's fairy story writer has dies under "suspicious" circumstances. She lived in a small garden apartment complex where other writers from the same women's magazine she had worked for live. Phryne takes a job as a fashion writer with the magazine to help her discover a possible culprit.
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