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The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi: A swashbuckling, seafaring romp from the bestselling author of the City of Brass Paperback – 8 March 2023

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Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient mysteries, and one woman’s quest to seize a final chance at glory…
A pirate of infamy and one of the most storied and scandalous captains to sail the seven seas.

Amina al-Sirafi has survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural.

But when she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse, she jumps at the chance for one final adventure with her old crew that will make her a legend and offers a fortune that will secure her and her family’s future forever.

Yet the deeper Amina dives the higher the stakes. For there’s always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savour just a bit more power…and the price might be your very soul.

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‘A thrilling, transportive adventure that is everything promised – Chakraborty’s storytelling is fantasy at its best.’
R.F Kuang, the SUNDAY AND NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of BABEL

‘Chakraborty's seafaring adventure is pure incandescence and adrenaline. Readers will leave these pages with their lungs full of ocean air, their fingertips glittered with magic and their hearts a little heavier for being both smitten and heartbroken by its finely drawn, poignant cast of characters. This is a book I will daydream of for years to come’ Roshani Chokshi, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of THE GILDED WOLVES

‘Chakraborty delivers again with a captivating story of motherhood, faith, friendship, dangerous magic, and hijinks on the high seas. Amina al-Sirafi is now my favorite pirate captain and I’m on board to follow all her adventures’
Fonda Lee, author of The Green Bone Saga

‘Chakraborty’s latest unfurls like a scroll of ancient parchment, conjuring realer-than-life monsters, menacing magic, and a heroine with a gnarled, beating heart. An exhilarating, propulsive adventure, stitched from the threads of real history, Amina’s adventures are the reason to read fantasy. I’ll follow this captain and her crew anywhere’
Ava Reid, internationally bestselling author of THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN

‘A marvellous and enthralling tale filled with wonders (and horrors), the best of which is Amina herself: witty, conflicted, loyal, ambitious, (mostly) honest, (occasionally) foul-mouthed, and so very relatable as she struggles to save herself, her crew, and the family she loves but so often left behind’
Kate Elliott, author of UNCONQUERABLE SUN and SERVANT MAGE

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A swashbuckling, seafaring romp from the bestselling author of the City of Brass

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Voyager GB (8 March 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008381356
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008381356
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.3 x 3.8 x 23.4 cm

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Shannon Chakraborty is the author of the critically acclaimed and internationally best-selling The Daevabad Trilogy. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and nominated for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, Crawford, and Astounding awards. When not buried in books about medieval seafarers and con artists, she enjoys hiking, knitting, and re-creating unnecessarily complicated historical dishes. You can find her online at www.sachakraborty.com or on Twitter and Instagram at @SAChakrabooks, where she likes to talk about history, politics, and Islamic art. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband, daughter, and an ever-increasing number of cats.

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LucyLou

Glorious adventure - give me more!

Reviewed in Australia on 10 April 2024

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This was the best book I’ve read this year. The big problem is that now I have to wait for the next book, and then the next. Full of wonderful characters and adventures, this is a fabulous book and sets the stage for even more excellent things to come.

I loved the City of Brass series. This story has a bit more… ease to it. It’s less complex and political but has just as much action and excitement.

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Lenayreads

Adventure filled story

Reviewed in Australia on 17 July 2023

Quite a fun and adventurous story. I’ve always enjoyed anything Shannon has written over the years.

Interesting ending and hopefully there will be more books in this world.

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Rina P

So fun, action-packed, and well written!

Reviewed in Australia on 26 February 2024

I grew up watching The Adventures of Sinbad on TV. So when I saw that Amina was pretty much a female (and arguably the more bada*se) version of Sinbad, I knew I had to read this book.

Amina al-Sirafi left her legendary pirating days behind. Or so she thought. When she was offered a job no bandit could refuse, she jumped at the chance for one final adventure with her old crew. She just had to be careful that she wouldn’t have to pay with her soul.

Oh this was so good! It was funny, action-packed and captivating. The dialogues were fresh and modern for its medieval setting. The characters were unique and memorable, with Amina being a prominent main figure that I couldn’t help but fall in love with. Unapologetically assertive, Amina was a strong female role model that I had always looked for in books.

The plot itself was amazing. It started deceivingly simple, but then it took a turn into something wild that I just couldn’t predict! I was completely hooked. There was nothing in it that I could fault.

Looking forward to book two!

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Cliente Kindle

Ótimo!

Reviewed in Brazil on 26 April 2024

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Bem escrito, narrativa dinâmica, história interessante. Amina é super carismática e pokas ideia, personagens de suporte também são bem definidos. A ambientação é impecável.

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Stella

Loved it!

Reviewed in Canada on 18 January 2024

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Was awesome to have a relatably aged main character who is also a bad-arsed. I find it hard to find stories like this that are adult oriented with strong female protagonists.
Enjoyed the story and all characters a lot and can't wait for the next one!

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Joshua Villines

Great Swashbucking Fun with an Eccentric, Delightful Crew

Reviewed in the United States on 28 February 2023

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After the smashing success of the Daevabad trilogy, fans of Shannon Chakraborty know exactly what to expect from her. She consistently provides: complex characters with complex morality; an in-depth immersion in Middle Eastern mythology, geography and faith; and a gradual build up to a crescendo of non-stop action. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi brilliantly delivers all of the above.

If you ever wondered how the story of Sinbad would be improved if the lead character were a middle-aged woman whose strength and wit have already reached legendary status in her own time, the character of Amina al-Sirafi is your answer. Magical forces outside her control, and no small amount of greed and political machinations, pull al-Sirafi away from her bucolic life in semi-retirement and cause her to reassemble her eclectic, eccentric, and highly-skilled pirate crew to help save a young woman. Along the way there is plenty of swashbuckling, a jailbreak, and enough witty banter to fill the hold of the largest frigate. There's even a cameo by a beloved Daevabad character.

Chakraborty does not weave her tales out of whole cloth, instead relying on her deep, scholarly appreciation of her source material. Serious readers would do well to plumb the depths of the mutli-page bibliography she provides at the end of the book. But you don't have to be a scholar to love this story. Anyone who loves to watch a scruffy team of big-hearted rogues pull together to use their wits to defeat an unambiguous evil will find much to love in this book.

Be forewarned, as with City of Brass, things move slowly at the beginning of Amina al-Sirafi, but the payoff in the second half of the book more than compensates for the slow early pace. As always, Chakraborty's prose is rich and evocative without feeling overwrought, and her dialogue is as sharp as a pirate's scimitar. Everything about the Adventures of al-Sirafi is a delight, and it's easily a must-read for 2023.

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V E C Nicholas

I can't think how to describe this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2024

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Except to say that everyone should read it. If you like myths and fairytales, the supernatural blended with the historic, and appreciate a well rounded protagonist, then this is a book you need to read. There are pirates, djinns, mythical and mystical beings, swashbuckling adventures, terrible deals with otherworldly beings, AND on top of that this is a story with a diverse cast of characters, set in the Indian Ocean.

Go read it, you'll be pleased you did. Interestingly, I absolutely hate first person voiced books, but Amina? I would read more of her if could, because even in the first person voice, this book was stunning.

M. Hedlund

Abenteuer, Piraten und Magie

Reviewed in Germany on 3 April 2024

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In diesem Buch taucht man in eine wundervolle Welt mit Piraten, Djinns, Geistern, Menschen in einer Welt rund um das rote Meer ein. Es geht um Beziehungen, Verantwortung, Freundschaft und natürlich Gut & Böse. Also alles was zu einem guten Fantasybuch gehört.
An verregneten Tagen kann man sich mit diesem Buch einen schönen Tag erlesen.

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