The Lady Adventurers Club
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The Lady Adventurers Club
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Narrated by:
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Kim Bretton
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By:
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Karen Frost
About this listen
A barnstormer. A Wild West trick shooter. A mathematician.
When archaeologist Anna Baring announces the founding of the Lady Adventurers Club in May 1923, none of the other three members expect to ever meet again. After all, they live halfway around the world from each other. What could possibly bring them together once more? Then they each receive an unexpected letter. Anna has found a tomb that promises to be even grander than that of King Tutankhamun, and she wants them to come to Egypt for the opening.
It's the find of the century. The tomb will make old Tut look like a pauper. But will the women of the Lady Adventurers Club get to see it? Egypt is a political powder keg. Unscrupulous criminals keep shooting at them. And weird, unnerving things seem to happen wherever they go. As the women race across Egypt, their friendship will be tested as they fall deeper into danger. They're not the only ones after a pharaoh's treasure.
©2022 Karen Frost (P)2022 TantorS
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Okay. Anna is presented to us as the brains behind the discovery of King Tut's tomb. As far as I know, she's not based on a real person. Part of the point of the story was of women being edited out of history. I found it disingenuous of the author to edit a woman into a real situation. I have no problem with the situation otherwise--just that it involved real people. By all means have Anna the brains behind the discovery of a tomb and have the men steal the thunder- just don't use the real team and King Tut.
My next point was that surely Anna would have impressed on the women that they were not to discuss her secret in public. As soon as they did, I foresaw the result. I'm no fan of accusatory scenes, but I thought the revelation to Anna that they had in fact discussed it was under-developed.
Anna herself is not altogether likeable, which is okay, since she's supposed to be ruthlessly driven. However, her intentional seduction felt a bit uncomfortable. Put a man in that role and it comes across as anything but romantic.
Georgette is an interesting character who warms up and shows her intelligent complexity more as the story progresses.
The driving force of the desert scenes is hinted at at first during the "eclipse". At first I thought the eclipse was just poorly researched and clumsily written, but in hindsight the author had a reason.
The story is well-paced, with plenty of action and the four women are well differentiated and each of them brings something to the plot. If there's a sequel I might well have a listen to see how much more the characters develop.
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