The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

2010 • 496 pages

Ratings198

Average rating4.3

15

Best book I've read in the last 5 years.

This book had:
-beliable conversations. A group of friends whom didnt keep in touch for some years but return to make sheananigans and they feel like real people.
-a proper demon husband. Often in books you have this uber powerful creature tha has been living for centuries but somehow still knows how to use cellphones and pine for the object of his love/obsession/etc. Here the demon is funny and does not understand your petty ramblimgs about basic needs like food and water because its busy making deals with the souls of your friends.
-A muslim woman that it is middle aged and tall and isnt a bigot as protagonist. She believes in double tap for god measure in killing but also in not being a hero now to fight another fight.
-realistic family. there's a daugther waiting with her gradma to the adventures of the protag
-sea voyage
-common ground w/me abot was is and isn't a compliment by a man (it is feminist? the evidence point to yes)
-a concil of snob magical birds

It is a refreshing read ofter seat gripping.

January 11, 2024