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Cairo, 1912, with magic. Sign me up.

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

August 14, 2022 by KimMiE" 3 Comments

CBR 14 BINGO: Rec’d. MsWas recommended this one to me, and I will be recommending it to others. I also saw this recommended on NPR’s list of best sci-fi and fantasy books of the last decade. In 1912 Cairo, collector of antiquities, lover of the exotic, and all around British-colonial caricature Lord Worthington meets with his Brotherhood of al-Jahiz, a group whose noble purpose is to “recover the most sacred wisdom of the ancients, to create a greater tomorrow.” Worthington’s group has taken to collecting […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr14, cbr14bingo, KimMiE", mystery, P. Djèlí Clark, steampunk

KimMiE"'s CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr14, cbr14bingo, KimMiE", mystery, P. Djèlí Clark, steampunk ·
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the great 2022 Bingo Catch-Up!

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark

From Hollywood, With Love by Scott Meslow

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

My Mother, She Killed Me, My Father, He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer

August 7, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 1 Comment

It wouldn’t be CBR Bingo without me frantically catching up on everything I read but was too distracted to write about, now would it? Square: Cold – Fool Moon – DNF This is it, folks- my first DNF in YEARS! I just couldn’t do it. I started this book way back in JANUARY, and despite multiple formats and multiple tries, I just can’t do it. I know there’s a mythical “it gets better” carrot hanging out past the fourth entry, but I just don’t have […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: adaptations, andtheIToldYouSos, cbr14bingo, Dresden Files, E.E. Ottoman, fairytales, film, Jim Butcher, Kate Bernheimer, lgtbqia, P. Djèlí Clark, retellings, rom coms, Samantha Irby, Scott Meslow

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: adaptations, andtheIToldYouSos, cbr14bingo, Dresden Files, E.E. Ottoman, fairytales, film, Jim Butcher, Kate Bernheimer, lgtbqia, P. Djèlí Clark, retellings, rom coms, Samantha Irby, Scott Meslow ·
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A Dead Djinn in Cairo

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

May 9, 2022 by 1000Oysters 3 Comments

  I accidentally read this series out of order. I read The Haunting of Tram Car 015 sometime last year and sort of pieced my way through the rest in the series until I reached A Dead Djinn in Cairo, which is the first book, this spring. It says something about P. Djèlí Clark’s world-building that each story felt standalone and yet very much grounded in a fully realized world. Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’awari investigates disturbances between the residents of Cairo and the djinn they share their […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: P. Djèlí Clark

1000Oysters's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: P. Djèlí Clark ·
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Unfortunately, this one was just meh for me.

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

November 22, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I actually don’t have too much to say about this one because it didn’t really hit for me. I’m not really sure why, because I’ve liked everything else P. Djèlí Clark has written (Ring Shout was the last thing of his I hadn’t yet read). And I mean, I didn’t not like it, but it’s never really a good sign when your reader is liking your world-building and the alternate history aspects of your story more than your actual story, and more than the characters. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror Tagged With: alternate history, Dark Fantasy, horror, narfna, novellas, P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

narfna's CBR13 Review No:176 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror · Tags: alternate history, Dark Fantasy, horror, narfna, novellas, P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout ·
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An AU of Steampunk Egypt, a magical whodunnit, and a great cast of characters. What more could you want?

A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark

October 26, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

BINGO – REC’D by the wonderful narfna, CoffeeShopReader, ElCicco, Emmalita, and witcherwill. Their reviews are all linked above. I encourage you to read all of these great reviews as well. Fatma el-Sha’arawi is an agent of the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities in an alternate history of Egypt in the 1910s. She is called in to investigate the brutal murders of a cult of people who worship al-Jahiz, the man who brought magic and the djinn into the world. Soon enough, a person claiming […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, colonialism, djinn, egypt, Egyptian gods, Islam, P. Djèlí Clark, steampunk

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:65 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, colonialism, djinn, egypt, Egyptian gods, Islam, P. Djèlí Clark, steampunk ·
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“The three of them sat there – a Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save.”

A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn, #3) by P. Djèlí Clark

October 1, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

Another book in this world, please! I continue to have a really good time with these audiobooks. I loved Suehyla El-Attar’s narration—even though she mispronounces some words, which would normally make me lose it, but that’s how much I love her voice—it’s so melodious it squashes my inner pedant. We’re back with Fatma el-Sha’arawi—agent of the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities—in this first full novel (the first two were novellas) in this alternate-history, fantastical version of 1912 Cairo. Decades previously, a man named […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Mystery, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, A Master of Djinn, alternate history, Fatma el-Sha'arawi, historical fiction, mystery, narfna, P. Djèlí Clark, steampunk, Suehyla El-Attar, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR13 Review No:132 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Mystery, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, A Master of Djinn, alternate history, Fatma el-Sha'arawi, historical fiction, mystery, narfna, P. Djèlí Clark, steampunk, Suehyla El-Attar, Urban Fantasy ·
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