She has to struggle not only with the challenge of her aquatic mission, but with the conflict between her desire to stay at home to raise her daughter and her need for seafaring adventure.

First of all, congratulations on the release of your brand-new, much-anticipated fantasy The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi! This is the general premise of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, and the story is told almost entirely through her perspective that she is telling to a scribe named Jamal. If you are looking for some good old-fashioned fantasy reading but set in a wonderfully fresh and unique world, this is the ticket. I like how the past is peppered in and I have just enough questions that I want answers, but am still able to pay attention.We used to joke that of the three of us, I could kill you up close, Tinbu could kill you from another ship and Dalilia could kill you from another city three days later.

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi is an action-packed pirate fantasy with an endearing cast of unlikely characters. For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered.The world building was awesome, the author spent a great deal of time crafting this world of giant scorpions with tentacles, magical artifacts, bird people, demons and more. The audiobook is mostly quite good, also there are a handful of asides that are recorded in a way that makes them muffled and hard to hear. An exhilarating, propulsive adventure, stitched from the threads of real history, Amina’s adventures are the reason to read fantasy.