There are parts of this book that showed real promise. I enjoyed visualizing Egypt in the 1800s. The bustling carriages and dirt roads in Cairo and the ruins of Alexandria. The setting of this book is so unique.

The part I could not overlook was Inez our main female heroine. She would make comments like she did not like when men looked at her as an ignorant woman, but honestly she was ignorant through a lot of this story line. She kept making the same mistakes and it was hard for me to visualize her as this strong, smart, courageous woman when Whit her love interest was the reason Inez made it through anything in this story.

I also found the love between Whit and Inez even more unbelievable and quite honestly unsettling than I did in the first book. He does something pretty untrustworthy pretty early on and he gets let off the hook pretty easily by Inez. I just found that completely unbelievable. I found their relationship distracting to the overall plot, and was completely over it.

This book ended being an amazing disappointment.