Crikey, the snobby racist narcissist main character's intended love interest is the most misogynistic man imaginable! Even for 1880! He thinks all women are morons as well as irrational uneducated nags & nuisances who should be avoided at all costs.
I hate both of them & I wish they'd both die.
Kafkaesque
#BookSky: I had high hopes for Elizabeth Peters' acclaimed Victorian-era Egyptology & archaeology murder/thriller novels, the Amelia Peabody series, but urgh! 😬
Despite being an intentional satire of British & white savior colonialism, the lead character's racist, snobbish, narcissistic... 1/
