The first book in the Dead Djinn Universe, and what a good start it was. While it’s only a short story, 36 pages, it’s a very good short story and is packed with great hints as to what the rest of the series is going to be like in this alternative fantasy/steampunk Cairo.
The title gives the beginning away in that a Dead Djinn is found in Cairo by its lover. A special investigator from the “Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities” is brought in with a police inspector to investigate and then it’s just non stop until the end.
Then once you’re at the end of this i can’t imagine that any reader wouldn’t want to dive straight into The Angel of Khan el-Khalili, which is the next book in the series.
Great writing, great characters and just plain good stuff for those who like their fantasy mixed up with steampunk elements.
A reimagining of a most sickening and horrific history in that supernatural, fantastical, Djèlí style.
My aim is to read all of Philip’s books in order, not all at once, but occasionally when i feel the urge to have my head done in a little bit. And this, my blog/review readers, is Philip’s very first.
And so we finally come to the end of this rather enjoyable series.
Yet another good read in the Big Sigma series.
We begin immediately after the events of 
It’s such a shame that a book that is telling us about the things that this book is telling us about could have been translated so poorly.
The first book in The Cyberpunk Uploads series.
We have a young woman who can read minds who works as a live in maid so that she doesn’t have to stay in any single place very long so that no one will guess her secret.
Season 2 has finally appeared and the most important thing is that all the cast seemed to have survived intact from covid — which is obviously the best thing ever.