Sometimes I wonder if there are any stories out there about a mummy-kitty coming back to life and trying to take over the world. This question has very little to do with "Necropolis", and more to do with "The Mummy", "The Mummy Returns", "The Mummy Returns Yet Again to Meet Tom Cruise", "The Mummy Meets the X-Men" &c.

The idea of ancient Egyptians coming back to life isn't anywhere near new, considering that they mummified themselves after death in order to do just that. But the modern Western world has developed a true passion for it - possibly after ingesting too many goddamned mummies.

So it comes to no surprise that a series of books about ancient magic and people coming back to life takes a detour through Egypt; it would have been expected anyway, but Christine being an Egyptologist who just discovered the tomb of an important pharaoh was a pretty good hint that shenanigans would happen there - even if, in the previous books, all shenanigans were mundane.

The plot is fairly typical of mummy and resurrected evil people stories: there's an evil queen looking for a hidden thing of power and trying to make her stay permanent while promising to do a load of bad things to living people, but that's fine. It's fun anyway.

What I like about "Necropolis" is that characters get developed further, that you get a feeling that the overarching plot of the series moves along, that yes, this might be a fairly typical adventure, but it ties into something larger.

Meanwhile, Whyborne and Griffin are as hot as usual and the little mundane details of, say, camels, add charm to the story.