Title: The Mummy
Series: The Mummy Chronicles
Author: Max Allan Collins
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: May 1, 1999
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425169480
ISBN-13: 9780425169483
Rick O'Connell, dashing American and legionnaire, is in Egypt looking for a good time. His discovery of the Lost City of the Dead is a fluke—but to British librarian Evelyn Carnarvon it's the archaeological find of the century. The city contains all the treasures of Egypt and possibly the secrets of life and death. Leading Evelyn's expedition deep into the Sahara isn't exactly easy money, though, as Rick must dodge death traps, escape the jaws of man-eating beetles, and even duel a hook-handed mercenary. And just when he's caught his breath, a long ago evil returns from the grave—with a taste for human flesh...
My rating:
Having gotten frisky with the pharaoh's mistress and helping her kill the man, high priest Imhotep is cursed for all eternity. Buried alive with a bunch of flesh-eating scarabs for company, he must never be freed...Pity not everyone got the memo.
Most of the time, the book is better than the movie. Even the book based on the movie screenplay. This time that's not the case. Sure, it did expand on the movie, giving depth and layers to a bunch of scenes and characters, but where the movie is snappy and entertaining, the book is plodding and rather dull.
And while I enjoyed the more down-to-earth, serious Rick O'Connell, compared to the comedy relief he was in the movie, Evelyn turned out to be quite a disappointment. An annoying one. I didn't like her. Compared to the movie, she was rather self-centered and arrogant, though that arrogance was misplaced.
And I found the romance between the ancients quite more believable that the one between the two leads.
2 stars, bitchslappable heroine/hero, fiction, historical, Max Allan Collins, movie tie-in, paranormal, suspense/mystery/adventure/thriller
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