B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsAfrica / Alternate History / djinn / Egypt / Fantasy / Historical / LGBTQIA / Middle East / POC / POC author / steampunk6 Comments
Forty years ago in Egypt, the mystic and inventor Al-Jahiz pierced the veil between realms, sending magic into the world before vanishing into the unknown. Now in 1912 Cairo, humans brush elbows with djinn in crowded tramcars and airships sail the skies. In this new world the Egyptian Ministry of ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAlternate History / djinn / Egypt / Fantasy / Historical / Middle East / novella / POC / POC author / steampunk6 Comments
Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities — handling a possessed tram car. Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner Agent Onsi Youssef are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Egypt / cats / dysfunctional family / Egypt / family relationships / female agency / female leads / Historical / Historical fiction / POC / politics / religionNo Comments
King Tutankhamon is dead. The possibly-divine ivory cat Nefru is still (perhaps) putting a paw into royal Egyptian affairs.Lord Ay wants a royal wife-Tut’s widow, actually-to give him the blood-right to the throne. She flees marriage with him and finds long-lost relatives. Princesses Baketamon and Meri have both longed to ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsdjinn / Egypt / Fantasy / female detectives / Middle East / POC / POC author / short-story / steampunk / strong heroine / turn of the 20th century / unusual heroine2 Comments
Egypt, 1912. In Cairo, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. 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 ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsancient-Egypt / cats / Egypt / family relationships / female agency / female leads / Historical / POC / politics / religionNo Comments
The Egyptian gods (if they exist) are the many which is the One: innumerable aspects of a single unity living in a time-space in which all time is now and all space is here, and everything can be true at once. Normally the gods don’t meddle in human affairs, asking ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsEgypt / Mystery series / unusual heroine / Veronica Speedwell series / Victorian mystery5 Comments
Dear Ms. Raybourn: This is the third in the Veronica Speedwell mystery series, and the fourth Deanna Raybourn title I’ve read. (In addition to the first two books in this series, I read the first Lady Julia Grey mystery, Silent in the Grave. I do plan to get back to ... more >