The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi: The epic first book in a swashbuckling new fantasy series from the bestselling author of THE CITY OF BRASS (Amina al-Sirafi, 1)

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We’re told time and time again what a threatening and amazing pirate she is, but we rarely see that in action during the book. The contradiction is so glaringly obvious that it's clear that the author either wants to change something Islam is so abundantly clear about, and/or she's conforming to the liberal agenda and including this "diversity" just for the sake of it--for the sake of sales and appeasing the audience. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband, daughter, and an ever-increasing number of cats.

It's an entertaining adventure that infuses a lot of real historical detail, plus we get a trans side character and I liked how it handled the issue of gender identity. Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there’s more to this job, and the girl’s disappearance, than she was led to believe. In addition, because Chakraborty is a historian at heart, she has delivered to us a treasure of intel about the world of this time and place.I am happy to say I had a fun time reading it, and if possible, I would love to read The Daevabad Trilogy before the release of the second book in the Amina al-Sirafi trilogy. But the pragmatist in me says that Tinbu has the best shot of building a proper raft out of whatever we can cobble together.

I mentioned that found family i For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered.

When Amina is approached by an extremely wealthy woman to embark on one more quest, she's definitely reluctant. I am loving this book so far, Amina seems like such a girl boss <3 I think she was right to take the job, I'm looking forward to finding out more about Dunya's father. The first trilogy by her, The Daevabad Trilogy, was completed in the year 2020, and it is a historical fantasy series with a lot of diehard fans.

I have traveled widely enough that I take everything written about “foreigners” with doubt and know better than to judge a community by their worst individuals.There is an island, and there is even a possible reference to Treasure Island, although, really, it may just be me projecting, and islands and treasure are merely standard tropes for the genre. Some nods are offered to that world, including a small part for a magical creature from the Djinn tales. As the story progressed, more magical elements were introduced and I definitely found it enchanting.

Please be warned, the following section will include spoilers for The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty from the beginning to Chapter 6. I mentioned that found family is one of the tropes implemented into The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi.

But I disliked how much it slowed down the primary plot and how it took away from any tension or suspense I might have felt at the difficult situations Amina encountered.