Street of the Five Moons

Continuing from the first in the series. Heroine trades up for a better, or at least much less dull, grade of boyfriend, rendering the series interestingly non-monogamous. Again more suspense than romance, and more history and art than either; the onstage parts of the romance are mainly banter, alth......more

It is popular is to adore Amelia Peabody. I do penance with those, hoping to work my way to another as good as “The Curse Of The Pharaohs”. I treat myself to Vicky Bliss sparsely. This better series is short; six to twenty of my less-liked characters and setting. Something fantastic about the realm......more

I've read this many times since Vicky Bliss is my favorite of author Elizabeth Peters' heroines. However, I haven't read it for a long time so when I saw that the Barbara Rosenblat narration was available on Audible, I got ready for an enjoyable reacquaintance. Her narration made the book even more......more

Ah yeah, now we're talkin'. With the second installment, Street of the Five Moons, the Vicky Bliss series starts getting its feet under it--in no small part due to Vicky's infamous love interest John Smythe coming on camera. Those of you who are fans of these books know what I'm talking about; those......more

A fun read and, quite frankly, a better starting place to the series than the first. It's a touch dated (written in the 70s), but Vicky's snark is delightful. I do wish she wasn't quite so prone to relatively serious errors in judgment—it undermines her supposed intelligence, even if she does cope w......more