Such an engrossing book, and even better, the narrator does a very good job of giving each character their own speaking traits, etc. 😄

Finished this book with my morning coffee today. Had to go back and find this particular page because it was a moment of great writing 🙂.

And that aside, I can‘t wait to start on the next book in the series since the protagonist and her family will be returning to Egypt (although the London break was nice).

“I mean that,” he insisted, throwing a brief and entirely unconvincing scowl at her. “I‘m here because it suits my purposes. Not for the sake of your war.”

“I said I understood,” Leia agreed, smiling privately to herself. The words were different; but the look on Karrde‘s face was almost identical.

(Knew there was a reason Karrde became my favorite throughout this trilogy 😄)

“He was a tall man with shoulders like a bull‘s and a black beard cut square like those of the statues of ancient Assyrian kings. From a face tanned almost to the shade of an Egyptian, vivid blue eyes blazed at me. His voice, as I had good cause to know, was a deep, reverberating bass. The accents were those of a gentleman. The sentiments were not.” (After this description, I can only picture Richard Armitage as Radcliffe *_* haha.)