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Feb. 25th, 2012 01:31 pmWhen ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jothra was here last month, I started trying to explain to her a book I remembered from when I was a kid that I had a vague desire to reread. It was called The Reluctant God and it was about the teenaged daughter of an archaeologist who accidentally wakes up a teenaged boy mummy and then they have a thing.
JO: That sounds just like a graphic novel by Joann Sfar called The Professor's Daughter!
BECCA: . . . there are two books with that plot?
(I should not have been surprised really by this, in hindsight.)
JO: Yes! It's great! Read it!
And I couldn't find The Reluctant God anywhere, so I did!
It turns out that The Professor's Daughter is not quite like The Reluctant God. For one thing, there is no buildup; the first page involves the professor's daughter taking her father's sexy mummy out on a Victorian-style date, and things spiral from there.
And by spiral, I mean AT LIGHTSPEED. There is A LOT of action. SO MUCH action. The professor's daughter accidentally kills some people! The mummy's evil mummy dad pops up and starts menacing people! Queen Victoria gets kidnapped, proposed marriage to, and then tossed in the English Channel!
It's all lols and hijinks and slapstick mostly, although I felt at times kind of weird about how much lols and hijinks and slapstick there was given how many people end up dead. Still, if you have been craving Victorian mummy romance, this is definitely the book for you!
jothra was here last month, I started trying to explain to her a book I remembered from when I was a kid that I had a vague desire to reread. It was called The Reluctant God and it was about the teenaged daughter of an archaeologist who accidentally wakes up a teenaged boy mummy and then they have a thing.JO: That sounds just like a graphic novel by Joann Sfar called The Professor's Daughter!
BECCA: . . . there are two books with that plot?
(I should not have been surprised really by this, in hindsight.)
JO: Yes! It's great! Read it!
And I couldn't find The Reluctant God anywhere, so I did!
It turns out that The Professor's Daughter is not quite like The Reluctant God. For one thing, there is no buildup; the first page involves the professor's daughter taking her father's sexy mummy out on a Victorian-style date, and things spiral from there.
And by spiral, I mean AT LIGHTSPEED. There is A LOT of action. SO MUCH action. The professor's daughter accidentally kills some people! The mummy's evil mummy dad pops up and starts menacing people! Queen Victoria gets kidnapped, proposed marriage to, and then tossed in the English Channel!
It's all lols and hijinks and slapstick mostly, although I felt at times kind of weird about how much lols and hijinks and slapstick there was given how many people end up dead. Still, if you have been craving Victorian mummy romance, this is definitely the book for you!
