📕 Title: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafı
✏️ Author: Shannon Chakraborty
📖 Genre: Fantasy
⭐ Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

BOOK BLURB

The notorious Amina al-Sirafi has retired from her seafaring pirate adventures to settle down and raise her daughter in obscurity. But when the wealthy mother of her former crewmate shows up at her door offering a fortune to retrieve her kidnapped granddaughter, Amina is compelled to accept. Leaving her daughter behind, Amina rounds up her former crew to begin the search for Dunya, only to find that there’s more to the kidnapping story. What should have been a quick job quickly turns into an adventure that’s a lot more than Amina bargained for…

REVIEW

Seafaring, pirates, magic, demons; there is so much to love about this book. Though very different from The Daevabad Trilogy in structure and tone, this book was an equally excellent fantasy adventure. It’s written in first person, primarily from Amina’s point of view with some hilarious asides to a second narrator named Jamal. Amina, an older woman and a mother, is a total badass and likeable protagonist. Amina’s pirate crew is awesome; it’s great having a cast of older characters. I loved that the story was centered around women and included a transgender character. As far as the audiobook, the narrators are fantastic.