📚 A Master of Djinn (2021)
I got another ARC from NetGalley, something that was on my to-read list already -- A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark. My spoiler-free review:
Dear Hollywood,
Please throw your grandad's boring-ass comic books in the trash, quit with the endless retreads, and make big summer movies out of stories like this explosive mystery in alternate-history/steampunk-y/djinn-laden early 20C Cairo.
Regards,
A non-fan.
RIYL: Stross's Laundry Files, but you wish that there were fewer wise-cracking white dudes and that most of the ~mystic woo~ was (were?) Egyptian-flavored.
Great mystery/adventure. If you're not sure about the setting, give 2016's A Dead Djinn in Cairo a shot. Shorter and free from Tor. (And which I think I need to re-read, now...)
