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Title: The worst book she's ever written
Review: I've been a Barbara Michzaels fan for 30 years, since Ammie, Come Home, and her last two books, the Dancing Floor and this one were really quite poor. The Dancing Floor had a couple clever spots--this one sounded good but left me flat. It wasn't the hypothetical gathering--it was the lack of focus. Unfortunately in her alter ego of Elizabeth Peters, our author has fallen so in love with the character of Amelia Peabody that she just can't bear to write anything else. And Barbara/Elizabeth is not a young woman--I'm sure she's hurrying to get through the interminable Amelia saga before she dies. But the rest of her work has suffered greatly and her latest Barbara Michaels titles have just not held up the the standards she set in good stories like Here I Stay.
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