I've read so many installments in the Dead Djinn Universe that this version of Egypt feels real and the one I've travelled to seems like a weird lucid dream-nightmare. -I wish it was.

Plot/Storyline/Themes:
It feels so physical, tangible that I can actually plot my route from the airport to Le Passage hotel from there into Cairo and imagine Djinn walking down the street, steam engines propelled vehicles, people in gallabiyahs, tarbooshes kaftans all luxurious and classy - no scammers or at least less than today's Cairo.

Sigh, I'd travel to Clark's version of Cairo for summer vacation every year.

Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
This time around, we get to swashbuckle with Djinn and ghosts and automatons with Agent Hamed (He's so annoyable really it's too easy) and Agent Onsi (bright-eyed and bushytailed) instead of Agent Fatma el-Sha’arawi. It's new and I like it.

We all need an Onsi, someone who will chat away the silence while we zone out and think deep important thoughts

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene:
Sheika Nadiyah, Fahima the Boilerplate Eunuch and Jizzu the Qareen Djinn perform the Zār on the tram.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “Whatever became of the dead, it didn’t appear they cared to converse with the living.” (Hamed on the lack of ghosts in Egypt)
🖤 “Never seek a wish from a djinn” (true true but now I want to make a wish real bad)

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■ Ramses Station: Trams, Airships, Dirigibles
■Art&Design: Pharaonists, Djinn Architecture, Alexandrian Scholars
■ Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities.
■Spectral Goggles
■The Kaf & Djinn: Jann, Marid, Ifrit, Qareen
■Al-Jahiz - The wandering Soudanese

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