![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s quite a bit of character development in that short space of time and I can’t wait to see what Clark does with a full length novel. Fatma was a fantastic main character and even though this is short I completely fell in love with her. As she digs deeper into the supernatural underworld of the city, she finds a much more sinister plot going on. Set in Cairo in the 1900s, the story follows Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi as she works to uncover the truth behind an odd suicide case. This story might only be forty three pages, but it absolutely packs a punch. The Fatma el-Sha’arawi is a series I have seen doing the rounds online recently, so when I heard that the best place to start is with the short novelette A Dead Djinn in Cairo, I decided to give it a go. What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads her through the city’s underbelly as she encounters rampaging ghouls, saucy assassins, clockwork angels, and plot that could unravel time itself. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. Source: I read this online on the Tor Books websiteĮgypt, 1912. ![]()
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