Reviews tagging 'Blood'

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

16 reviews

rorareads55's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Suicide, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Violence

surdiablo's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Interesting short-story about a detective and her investigations, relating to djinns and otherworldly entities, located in a steampunk Cairo in the 1910s. Considering the page count, it was a rather well-written, self-contained story for the most part. The world-building or the setting itself was the strongest point, the plot itself is interesting enough ( maybe a bit predictable but that's not necessarily a con ) and the characters were alright but didn't have much depth. Apparently it's part of a series of short-stories with a full-blown novel at the end so color me intrigued nonetheless!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Blood

anni_swanilda's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Blood, Death, and Gun violence

wilybooklover's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

4.0

Very interesting worldbuilding and characters, especially for such a short story. I am intrigued!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Violence and Blood

Minor: Sexism and Misogyny

librarianmage's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Blood, Suicide, and Gun violence

bel017's review

medium-paced

Very heavy on world building. As a short story I would have appreciated more plot and less detail.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, and Death

nicnevin's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

I am in love with this wordbuilding, steampunk magic Egypt with tantalising hints of other worlds. I gotta read the rest of this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

totallyshelfaware's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Wow. Just .. wow. 

The setting, the intricacy of the world-building, the characters, the lore - this was so interesting and enjoyable, I loved everything about it! 😍

Plus, Suehyla El-Attar's narration elevated this to being an easy favourite. 

So glad that there's more from this universe left for me to explore!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Blood and Violence

Minor: Suicide

tinyelfarcanist's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

There was a lot of focus on the djinn’s penis size.

I was very excited for this as I love djinn folklore, but the steampunk setting didn’t do it for me. I found the resolution predictable and underwhelming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: Suicide

ellekhupe's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Gore and Blood

Minor: Sexism and Cannibalism