A review by afinalgirl
Fire Boy by Sami Shah

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

in my quest to enter my djinn era, i added fire boy to my list of books to read. the plot sounded interesting; a boy living in karachi that just wants to play D&D but can see djinn. after a car accident that changes everything, wahid has to go on a quest to find a djinn to help him solve everything. 

first of all, i LOVED this book. it was way more intense than i expected it to be, it’s violent and gory and very creepy. every few chapters there is a little interlude of djinns being mostly fucked up that i was just living for! 

secondly, it ends very abruptly. it’s not even really an ending, it just feels like the end of a chapter - HOWEVER that’s because this is a duology; and i cannot wait to get my hands on the second 🔥 

i adored that it was set in pakistan, i loved learning so much more about what day to day life is like there and i loved how much religion was interspersed into it. our teen main character is gangly, allergic to everything, and just wants to sort everything out - except there‘s a reason he can see jinn and it’s probably exactly what you think 🔥 

read this book, let’s start a djinn club 😏