The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi: A New Fantasy Series Set a Thousand Years Before the City of Brass (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062963505)

"A thrilling, transportative adventure that is everything promised-Chakraborty's storytelling is fantasy at its best." -- R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War

"An exhilarating, propulsive adventure, stitched from the threads of real history, Amina's adventures are the reason to read fantasy." -- Ava Reid, internationally bestselling author of Juniper & Thorn

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend.

Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's 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 tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade's kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family's future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God's will.

Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there's more to this job, and the girl's disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there's always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power...and the price might be your very soul.

Author: Shannon Chakraborty
ISBN-10: 0062963503
ISBN-13: 9780062963505
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2023
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.37w x 1.68d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2022 pg. 11
Publishers Weekly 10/31/2022
Library Journal 12/01/2022 pg. 83
Booklist 01/01/2023 pg. 41
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2023
School Library Journal 05/01/2023 pg. 90
BookPage 02/01/2023