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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (by Shannon Chakraborty), which promised pirate adventures/adult fantasy in the vein of the voyages of Sindbad set in the 12th century. It's... um. Not really doing that so far. It reads like YA and at chapter 9 has little magic so far. I also wonder, when the author writes in an afterword how important historical accuracy was to her, why a guard is called a cop and all the good guys have modern western sensibilities. I'll keep reading it, but I'm going to make a lot of "hmmmmm" noises.