Djinn City

A young boy who is raised in isolation and poverty by his father in a dilapidated mansion finds out his mother was a djinn. And then A LOT happens.

I loved this, every POV had my attention, there was nothing I never could predict the trajectory of the story and I had a couple chuckles. Djinn is one of my buzzwords, especially after reading The Ghurka and the Lord of Thursday by the same author, so I nominated this for my IRL book club. The ending was...a surprise and a bit of a bummer, but not a deal breaker. Book club reception was a mix.

Recommend if you want to explore Eastern mythology, like the idea of lots of egotistical djinn, don't mind the idea of fantasy with a sci-fi twist, and want fleshed out characters but don't need a lot of depth in the character relationships.