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A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

August 30, 2022 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

I was pretty excited to finally pick up and find the time to read A Master of Djinn. I had previously been delighted by P. Djèlí Clark’s alternative, magical steampunk 1910s Cairo. The setting is just so damned fun. The novellas I had read before Master of Djinn—The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and A Dead Djinn in Cairo— were masterful in how they managed to be so descriptive for short form works, so was I curious as to how he would adapt an entire novel into this […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: A Master of Djinn, Cairo, cbr14bingo, Dead Djinn Universe, egypt, hugo award nominee, Mystics and Estorics and Colonialism, P. Djèlí Clark, steampunk, Time

LittlePlat's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: A Master of Djinn, Cairo, cbr14bingo, Dead Djinn Universe, egypt, hugo award nominee, Mystics and Estorics and Colonialism, P. Djèlí Clark, steampunk, Time ·
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