I read this last night and yet I hardly can remember it. In half an hour's reading I went through the perspectives of three characters who were far removed from one another. None of them were interesting, although I do remember rolling my eyes at the stupidity of the young boy I believed would become the main character. His baby sister was adopted by a merchant family to whom he belonged as a slave. When he is given the chance to escape, he tries to take his sister with her, even though she is clearly loved and cared for, while he will become a fugitive. This sort of reasoning might be expected from a younger child, but the boy is a teenager. He himself comes to the realization that he should leave his sister, but only as he is caught trying to take her.
This book used many terms from the Islamic world--pasha, khalif, dinar, etc. They bothered me because they were so wholesale-imported from our world. Perhaps if I had continued the books I would have gotten used to it, but the characters were uninteresting, and I had no curiosity to discover how the plot would develop, so I dropped this series too.
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