Reader Review: The tale is quick and the ending is great; it's just the ending the reader desires, and all credit to Irwin for delivering it, and not some "artsy" cop-out. Indeed, I almost let out a cheer. Outside of the plot Irwin's writing is strong as ever. I don't know how he does it; his prose is so sinewy and compact that a lesser writer would've given us twice as many pages for the same amount of story.

The women of harem are teaching the new sultan how to die through love. "From a publisher committed to literary fantasy comes a work worthy of the category from Robert Irwin whose knowledge of Arab culture allows him to fabricate an Arabian Night that is memorably erotic and very funny. Homosexual giraffes, congress with crodiles, a phalomancer who has a sideline in vulvascopy - what a curious cornucopia! Wonderful!" Brian Case in Time Out A feminist erotic novella with the sultan the plaything of the harem. Erudite and zany and wonderfully funny.

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