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The setting of the harem is provided for its obvious salacious character, but the book both tries to deny the exotic sensuality, and at the same time rely on it. It can't have it both ways. A eunuch for hero should not be inviting chaste sex scenes, but we get them, unfortunately.
When I do turn to historical fiction I need it to prove this was a story put down into a historical setting that needed the story, and vice versa. Even better would be the sense, as in Patrick Suskind's [[''Perfume]] '' for instance, that this was the ideal combination of author and story, where you can't imagine anyone more appropriate to research and tell the tale.
The research here is evidently fine, but the tale is not. Like the hero, there should really be a bit more to it.
