The issue of voting rights is a bit of a distractor, and is perhaps less well integrated, as it doesn't really impact the story until much later. I felt like I had a rough idea of the djinn and the world politics this time.

World-building is more complete here than in the first novella, and is integrated well. Meanwhile, the women of Egypt are mobilizing, advocating that Parliament give them the right to vote. But Inspector and his new sidekick, the enthusiastic and open Agent Onsi will certainly find out.

You see, the world has been opened to the land of the djinn since 1860 or so, and it's more likely that the troublemaker is some kind of lesser djinn. There's a ghost in Tram Car 015, although Senior Agent Hamed is fairly certain it isn't a ghost. This book has many favorable reviews by people that I really respect, but I did not enjoy this. Someone who did something bad just happened to confess. They just happened to be overheard by someone who could help them. If your hero is going to conquer your villain, it has to be a Herculean task.” (Thanks, Joe Valdez, for the quote!) However, everything in this book came easy for the heroes.

I believe it was Dan Brown who said, “You can never be easy on your hero. I knew exactly what was going to happen when the investigators were going to try to stop the haunting. The action was laughable, eye-rolling, and predictable. I am quite a fan of it, but the way it was introduced was really rough. It was not a smooth transition, and it was extremely awkward. Women’s suffrage is inserted into the book like a freight train. However, this book just comes out right in Chapter 1 and tells us that it is haunted and that is that.Įnter Chapter 2. A great example of this would be The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jónasson or The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon. I love, love, love the dance where you are wondering, “Is this book going to have a supernatural explanation or a scientific one?” The back and forth can be incredible. In the first chapter, we discover that the tram car is haunted. However, I will read anything if the storytelling is good. The Haunting of Tram Car 015 is a spooky book which I would classify as fantasy horror, and, admittedly, this genre isn’t my go-to. My underground book club has never steered me wrong, so I picked this up without reading anything about it first. Someone from my underground book club suggested The Haunting of Tram Car 015 when I requested short book recommendations (I’m still trying to get through Game of Thrones).

A dead djinn in cairo by p djèlí clark