A review by rgrigsby80
The Steel Seraglio by Louise Carey, Mike Carey, Linda Carey

3.0

This was a bit of an unusual book. I enjoyed parts of it, but it easily could have ended after Book One. (I completely lost interest in the last fourth of the book.) Also, modern colloquialisms would pop up here and there, which felt jarring in a book meant to emulate One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. I realize one of the characters has foresight and can apparently see far enough into the future to understand modern English dialect, but (for example) having a character based in ancient Arabia refer to "when &@$# hits the fan" really takes one out of the story.