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Apr 24, 2012CB2295 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I liked this book more than I expected; the storyline is suitably complex and overall thankfully the book contains about the right amount of local Malaysian atmosphere, even for a reader who’s been there, though at the beginning she’s a bit heavy handed on the atmospherics; like when she pedantically explains that an automated airport shuttle train doesn’t have a driver; I kept waiting for her to mention the super-tall Petronas Towers in her Kuala Lumpur descriptions (they don’t make their first appearance until page 56 but then they do appear several times after that); but, all in all, the book’s a rather good start for a series and I will look forward to reading the next ones, of which three additional books have been published by the end of 2011, each one set in a different SE Asian country.