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Very Sad

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Reviewed: 09-29-23

**Spoiler***







Long term characters don’t make it. Very Sad. This is in many ways a culmination.

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Excellent story should be a novel

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Reviewed: 04-20-23

Incredible book. Narrator is great. Story is novel and interesting. Should be a novel instead of just a story.

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best book since book 5

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Reviewed: 02-21-23

The last two books before this were good but the worst in the series. This one was awesome. It involved so many of the characters that have been introduced since the beginning and was just great. We also got to see a LOT of dungeon action.

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Great Story More action Some revelation

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Reviewed: 12-07-22

This is a great story. There is more action and less lead up than the first. A lot of things are slowly being revealed. It feels like Simon is beginning to mature and we learn more about Josua and his background.

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Excellent Jobs by the Actors, twists and turns without hackiness

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Reviewed: 10-19-22

Love this! One really gets a feel for the location and the local characters. Many twists and turns without it feeling hacky. Just looking through the cast you understamd that the level of acting is remarkable. This should be mini-series on Netflix or something. I’d love the same cast!

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Takes you away! Lovely attention to detail!

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Reviewed: 07-24-21

First and foremost the narrator is excellent. She’s brilliant with her pronuniciatiom and differentiating characters male, female, magical and mundane. We return with the full novel sequel to the novella “A Dead Djinn in Cairo”. Just like the previous book it starts with the protagonist Fatma el-Sha'arawi, who is a special investigator with the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities wearing a dapper English suit peacocking like Hercule Poitou, investigating a murder in what we would have called Colonial Egypt. That is if it wasn’t due to the opening of a rift letting Djinn, Ifrits, Angels and other creatures from the pages of legend and scripture into the world where they were harnessed by Egypt allowing the Khedive to avoid the shackles of colonialism (don’t worry this is basically explained in the first 2 pages of the prequel). I was also impressed by the diversity in the book. It references and has characters of varying backgrounds from Coptic Christians, Sufis, Nubians, Abyssinians (Ethiopians), Mameluke Turks, and Ottoman Turks, Brits. The author did their damn research and seems to know about Egyptian and Sudanese culture from this period that parallels our real world down to foods, teas, religious philosophy, and clothing. Anyway the murder is of a wealthy British occultist and his ridiculously cultural insensitive brotherhood (think people that pick and choose randomly from cultures with no account for the living breathing folks that still live that culture and use terms for people such as as “mystical” and “exotic”)by a man claiming to be the disappeared now returned Sudanese mystic that tore the hole open in the veil allowing Djinn and magical creatures into the world. Fatma is trying to find this person and bring them to justice navigating the backstreets of Cairo encountering all kinds of magical people and creatures while occasionally swilling booze with black American expatriates fleeing Jim Crowe and playing jazz in local haunts, Copts, Ethiopians, Nubians, and Neo-Pagans returned to the Old Gods of Egypt.

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Decent story bad narrator. Other books in better

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4 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 06-18-21

It took me days to listen to this because the narrator was so bad. Even his pronunciation of English words was terrible (subtle is pronounced “suttle”). The Egyptian characters all sound the same. He reads like a jr. high kid reading out loud during English class. PLEASE READ THE OTHER BOOKS WITH AN AWEOME NARRATOR. Go list to “A Dead Djinn in Cairo” (a novella happens before this) and “Master of Djinn” (a full novel that happens after this).

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Great Book

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Reviewed: 08-06-20

Traditional but not Traditional the writing was fun and rousing but I continued to get confused between the characters that are twins who had a similar name. The action was fast-paced and fun but could get a little confusing. This is meat and potatoes fantasy action. There are no barbarian warriors or pretty princesses. There are just the stalwart and proudly ugly dwarves.

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Great First book, heck great book

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Reviewed: 05-07-20

This is an excellent first book. The narration is excellent and is pregnant with emotion yet startling in its control. The livid emotions of the primary character burn up the story. I’ve never felt a character’s determination, anger, and love more in any book I’ve read or listened too. The book is about an unjust society where nobles wield enormous power over lesser members of society. It’s about the indignity this causes. The titular character loses people dear to him because of this. This seems so ho him describing it here but the author burns up the page describing this. The world is obviously heavily influenced by African themes. This is a fantasy but it is not our world. It is richly drawn to painstakingly give you knowledge of the military, class, and political divisions and situation of the day although the primary character is no politician or subtle man. It’s an excellent book that describes the magic by these individuals to summon dragons, to enter what seems to be another dimension, an assail their enemies. In other words, great world building. The book is a story of refugees fleeing and colonizing a distant land only to become oppressors. However within their own society there are corrupt elites. In the young primary character we see a person wronged by those elites in the Soviet of which he is a part. I have no idea why particularly in the US reviews people don’t like this book. It very much seems to be because it departs from the tired “this is a society base on Medieval Europe” trope. Don’t listen to them and give this a try.

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