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Agent Fatma is called to investigate the deaths of all members of a secret society, and assigned a new young partner, the latest woman in an organization that is overwhelmingly male. So a bit of old-cop, new-cop, plays out throughout the story, where Fatma learns to trust her partner.

There’s plenty of sluething and subterfuge at play in this book, with a fantasy, sci-fi, and whodunit mashup. Clark keeps the pages turning, with occasional head-scratchers. For instance, why does Fatma routinely make mistakes in how she conducts her work with Djinn, when that’s her job?

However, the general grist of the story is strong, the characters are engaging, and the surprises are truly surprising. I recommend it.

The information, once you get to it, is good. But you have to wade through the author's personal spiritual beliefs through much of the first half of the book.

You need to skip to just past half of the book to actually get to the content that the book's title is about. The anatomical drawings and explanations are quite good, but they do coexist with more spiritual beliefs.

I recommend the book for the drawings and explanations, but with the reservation that much of the book gets in the way of the information it presents.