provides the perfect amount of fan service to engage returning fans without alienating new readers. the literary equivalent of a cup of lovely mint tea: a refreshing, delightful and magical mystery to enjoy while absorbing vitamin D on a crisp spring day. This will be at the top of my To Recommend list for a long time coming. I could easily write three times as much as I have now and still only scratch the surface of this outstanding novel. At least a third of the pages of my review copy are dogeared, marking important passages and startling lines, interactions, and scenes worth coming back to. It’s his most complex work to date, full of all the wit, imagination, and incisive socio-cultural critique fans have come to expect.
builds on the momentum of not just the rest of the series but the Clark canon. I especially appreciated the way he explored the way Westerners utilized racism and Egyptians colorism to denigrate and oppress. True to form, Clark weaves in nuanced discussions of colonialism, the patriarchy, white feminism, sexism, racism, misogynoir, and blackface, among other issues. Against this inventive alternate history backdrop he sets up a clever crime and even cleverer detective. Clark takes a fascinating premise and extrapolates the reactions and consequences to the rest of the world.
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