Questions About The Perfect Assassin (Chronicles of Ghadid, #1)

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What language is the language of this book potentially based off of? I listened to it in audiobook form and the narrator pronounced the words like you would pronounce words in Arabic, but none of them were words I recognized. Could it be Farsi?

George You could have recognized the same Arabic words being distorted as have been borrowed (also with distortions) into the English words ghoul and djinn o…moreYou could have recognized the same Arabic words being distorted as have been borrowed (also with distortions) into the English words ghoul and djinn or genie.

You should have further recognized the addition of the suffix -i for the singular "jaani" vs. the plural "jaan", and the same suffix for Menna's and her colleague's profession(s). I'm betting that word is also Arabic-sourced, but unlike you, I know essentially no Arabic, only some of its reflections in English.

Including spelling. I assume, as I hope your narrator executed, that the city-state Ghadid's name starts with the voiced counterpart of the unvoiced sound that Bach's name ends with.(less)

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HI! What would be the content rating on this book? Thanks!

George The novel assumes that capital punishment is justified--which, e.g., the Catholic Church used to do but rejects for modern societies. It also assumes …moreThe novel assumes that capital punishment is justified--which, e.g., the Catholic Church used to do but rejects for modern societies. It also assumes that men may have husbands and women have wives, which some parents aren't going to want to discuss and others will find laudable.(less)

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