Title: A good, but not great, book.
Product review: I recently learned that Doris Egan is Jane Emerson of City of Diamonds fame. Why did she write under different names? I don't know. But I check from time to time to see if she has written a followup to City of Diamonds and stumbled on this information and immediately ordered the Ivory series.I was pleasantly surprised, for a while. The book is very readable, which I consider to be very important. More important than "what the book is about" in most cases. I was immediately interested in the heroine and the people she was interacting with.But as the book went on, it began to meander quite a bit, with some major events that were barely explained. Also, the heroine's love-interest is very lightly developed and I found it hard to imagine them together.Overall, a fun ride - but not a great book. I'd recommend it for light read.
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