Haunting of Tram Car 015

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English language

Published April 5, 2019 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-1-250-29478-4
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4 stars (3 reviews)

Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities — handling a possessed tram car.

Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner Agent Onsi Youssef are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and sentient automatons in a race against time to protect the city from an encroaching danger that crosses the line between the magical and the mundane.

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reviewed Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

Entertaining

4 stars

What if Egypt was quickly modernizing in the 1910s and also djinns and other spirits were real? One djinn seems to be haunting team car 015 in Cairo's overhead public transportation system. Agents Hamed and Onsi have been dispatched by the ministry to solve the problem.

Hamed is stuffy, but trying to be okay with modernization. Onsi is English educated and fits in better, but is a rookie agent.

They're charming, and the world Clark has created is interesting and has lots of potential.

reviewed Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

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3 stars

Just long enough to whet your appetite, in an alternate history Cairo that is a collision of modernity and history. (In this context, "modernity" means "modern, Djinn-powered technology".) Agent Hamed is middle-aged, and gives off a faint air "I'm too old for all these new-fangled things" that isn't so regressive that it made me annoyed with him. He's like 'I guess it's time for women to get the vote?' but also happy to get help from various women in exorcising the haunted tram car.

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Subjects

  • Cairo (egypt), fiction
  • Fiction, fantasy, general