January Book Report, Pt. 3

The setting of this book, Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure, is very important to the story. It takes place in the present, probably a few years ago, like 2005. There are three main settings, and a fourth sort of important one, but it was a short time frame so I didn't consider it main. The first setting is in New York City. The second main setting is Egypt, and the last significant one is the United Kingdom. And finally the fourth setting is the Arctic Circle.
I'll go in order, starting with New York City. This setting isn't nearly as important as Egypt or the United Kingdom, but is more important than the Arctic Circle. The reasons are that NYC wouldn't be important unless the twins had their wisdom teeth removed there (djinn powers start after removal of the wisdom teeth). So that in itself is important enough to mention New York City, because without them being djinn, none of this story could happen.
Next is Egypt, more specifically Cairo and the surrounding areas and desert. This is easily the most important setting of the story, by far. There are many reasons Egypt was so important, with the big one being that the Egyptian stele, the object that could change the balance of good and bad luck throughout the world is there, which is half the reason that Nimrod, (the twins' uncle, also a djinn) took them there. The other half is that Egypt is the best place to train djinn, because of the very hot temperatures, which all djinn love because heat strengthens their powers. So Egypt is doubly important. If the stele was in, say, someplace like Russia, that would not be good, since the cold would not only not let the twins train, it would also virtually sap their and Nimrod's powers.
The United Kingdom is important as well, because that's where the stele led the group, to find the scepter, which contained the seventy 'lost djinn,' which ultimately tipped the homeostasis towards good, so without that, evil wins, no point to story, no more books after this, but now there is a point, more books after this one. It is also where Nimrod lives, and where the twins learned they were djinn.
Last is somewhere in the Arctic Circle, which is necessary to mention because that's where they pull Nimrod out of the jar while imprisoning Akhenaten's ghost forever in the Arctic Ocean. But that's it all they do there.
So basically the setting is very important to the book, including the time, because since the time frame is recent they can use planes and modern technology. Without it, the trips would be a lot harder to carry out.