Genre: Fantasy
Cairo starts very brightly. The black and white art is good. The characters we are introduced to, seem interesting and the writing leads us to believe that there is a good story to be told. The book remains strong till the mid point as the various plots and sub plots are laid out.
Midway through it starts to fizzle out. This starts with the characters, one finds it hard to have a connection with them. Their motivation's and the decisions that they take are too simplistic. Their break through 'a-ha' movements are childish. The author starts to touch on the current middle east conflicts between the Israelis and Arabs but does no justice to the complexities of the conflict.
The resolution to the various sub-plot and quandaries that the characters find themselves in is arbitrary. Magic is used as a convenient hammer to bang the plot lines closed. What starts out as a promising book ends up as a average book.
Rating: 2.5 / 5; Average, don't bother there are better books around.
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