The Mummy (Ramses the Damned #1) by Anne Rice

Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. Although he pursues voluptuous aristocrat Julie Stratford, the woman for whom he desperately longs is Cleopatra. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger.


Rice writes a good story, but I wish she didn’t veer so close to Harlequin-type characters. Julie is beyond gorgeous and, though supposedly strong, is indecisive, and relies too much on the men in her life. Ramses is, of course, very good-looking, with a body that just won’t quit. Yet he turns out to be as indecisive as Julie. Gods on the outside, dorks on the inside.

The plot of the book is actually pretty good, though while there’s quite a bit of murder, there’s very little real horror. If you’re looking for a book that will keep you up at night, this isn’t it.

Unfortunately, like her other series, Rice begins to pull other characters into the same situation. Eventually there were at least a dozen vampires in her vampire series. Here, you can see that eventually there are going to be an awfully lot of immortals if given enough time. But only one sequel has been written, so we’ll never know. Will I read the sequel? I’m not sure.





( TBR Book Links 1-30 )

31. Echoes of Home: A Ghost Story by M.L. Rayner
32. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Talking Classics) by Oscar Wilde, Martin Shaw (Reader)
33. The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack (The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone #2) by Rick McIntyre, Marc Bekoff
34. A Knight of the Word (The Word & The Void #2) by Terry Brooks
35. The Mummy (Ramses the Damned #1) by Anne Rice









I Read Horror Year-Round List

*Winter Theme, or winter appearance on the cover (snow, ice, etc.) - Ararat by Christopher Golden

*Ghosts or spirits - The Family Plot by Cherie Priest

*Psychological

*Monster or Monsters - Snowblind by Christopher Golden

*A body of water (featured in story, on cover, or in title) - Duma Key by Stephen King

*Really scary book cover - The Breach by M.T. Hill

*Woman on cover - Later by Stephen King

*Written by a woman - The Mummy (Ramses the Damned #1) by Anne Rice

*Written by a best-selling horror author - If It Bleeds by Stephen King

*Written by an indie author - Echoes of Home by M.L. Rayner

*Historical horror (must be an historical novel written by a contemporary author)

*Folk horror