Time travel. All over the place, and all over time

I enjoyed this. The usual characters are all here and this time they're sent off to dispose of three aspects of the same bad guy. Jonathan and Kelly are in ancient Egypt where they run into the most famous of all Egyptian Kings and treachery abounds. I like the changing perspectives of each of the main characters as they're dispersed through various time periods.

The narrator does a good job although you do have to stay on top of some of the conversations to make sure you know who's saying what.

The story continues into Book 5. That's next on my list; see you at the end of that one.

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Welcome to Egypt, Mr Shade!!

Book four in the Jonathan Shade series and the start of a three part story line. Sent back in time, Shade and Kelly find themselves in ancient Egypt. Two other storylines are present for the next two books. Good story, that moves at a nice pace.

Joe Hemel does his usual good job, four books in and he has clearly defined the main characters.

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A Pharaoh or a king nope just Jonathan Shade

On wow, one book wasn't enough to contain this story. I normally like to have a totally different book between stories, so I don't get the story confused and it makes the series last longer but that will not be happening with this book and as soon as I have finished writing this review I am off to start the next book. It helps that it ended with such a cliff hanger that it doesn't feel like a new book, so he prepared if you listen to this book you will have to get the next book and what a book it is. The story jumps around in time and is told by the different characters as they face different struggles and situations on there own. I missed the camaraderie between the characters but still really enjoyed this book with all the different twists that take place. The idea of going back in time to three different locations was interesting and Egypt as a starting point was a good choice. Can't wait to see how the other locations play out.
Sharon is back and despite betraying Jonathan, when he most needed her, she still expects him to help. Henry Winslow has divided himself into three and sent each part of him back in time to find the tablets of Thoth in the hopes of gaining immortality but by doing this he is going to change history and destroy this time line. Unless Jonathan and his team each go back to a different part of time and stop him. But things with Sharon and even wizards are never that easy and each will face there own perils. Can Jonathan and Kelly survive Egypt and make it back to Brand and Ester in the 1920's?
I really like Joe Hempel as the narrator he is very talented and a pleasure to listen to. Good job because I am off to listen to him again.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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Cliff Hanger

Love this series. The books are easy to listen to, my only criticism is this book felt too short. It isn't it just a good listen and pace is kept going through every chapter.

definitely going to listen to the next instalment.



"This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of AudiobookBoom dot com."

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My First Jonathan Shade Novel

This was my first Jonathan Shade audiobook. Its a good solid urban fantasy novel with some Egyptian and wild west time travel thrown in for fun.

Joe Hempel as a narrator was excellent and made it it easy for the different simultaneous strands of the story to come together. Multi strand frequently cut audio stories can be hard to bring off and can leave me cross eyed and disengaged. But this was done well and added the the novel. I enjoyed myself.

I always feel guilty reading urban fantasy books. I feel i should be reading something more improving. But life is just too short. This was fun and enjoyable and i may go back and get another when my audiobook backlog settles down. Definitely something to keep you going until the next Harry Dresden.

Please note that This review was undertaken as part of the Good Reads Audiobook review Programme

Bill Scott
Edinburgh
September 2016

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great book

I Enjoyed this audio book very much from start to finish great story line too
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"Because dead people don't get up and walk ..."

What did you like most about Anubis Nights?

Poor Jonathan Shade: for the son of wizards without any magic of his own (other than being impervious to the magic of others), he does seem to find himself having to save the world rather frequently. This time he and his companions must go back in time to stop another dead wizard from gaining immortality and changing everything as they know it. And not just once, but three times.
This book is obviously the precursor of a series within the series (this is book four) as only part of the task is here attempted, with Shade and the fearsome fighter Kelly being transported back to Ancient Egypt in search of the villainous Harry Winslow. As in book three, the story is told from the alternating perspectives of the protagonists, which not only drives the story forward but adds extra insight into the characters themselves. Although mostly concentrating on Kelly and Jonathan, the rest of the gang - Esther, Brant and Rayna, - also make welcome appearances and we learn some especially I interesting details about Esther's past which are sure to resonate in later books.
As always, the narration is superb, with Joe Hempel's adroit voicings of each protagonist such that he becomes each character he assumes at the time.

I was fortunate in being gifted a complimentary copy of Anubis Nights, via Audiobook Boom, in exchange for an honest review. My thanks as this is a fun book in a very enjoyable series, with great characters, fast paced action, quirky situations and comedy, too. Best if read in series sequence, though not totally essential.
I am looking forward to book five.

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