Reviewed by nannah on
Representation:
- every character that I’ve encountered so far is West Asian and Muslim
Fatima, a twice-time survivor of Shayateen djinn attacks, lives in a city protected by orderly Ifrit djinn. She herself has Ifrit blood in her veins from the sacrifice of a very powerful Ifrit when she was a child, and it will change her “in ways she cannot fathom, ways that scare even those who love her”, according to the Goodreads summary. I never got that far. There would also be, I’m assuming, political intrigue involving the maharajah of the city, his sister, and the leader of the Ifrit (Fatima’s love interest).
It was the writing style that did it for me. This isn’t a very short book (over 400 pages), and the dry, almost technical writing bogged down by unnecessary description (after every bit of dialogue there was a paragraph of beats or inner monologue, making conversations take ages) would make it very difficult for me to get through.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 30 August, 2021: Finished reading
- 30 August, 2021: Reviewed