Nicola Rhodes

This is a twist on the classic genie-in-a-bottle story and is very Terry Pratchett-esque in its humour. From the cheeky foreword and the very first chapter, with its sly rewriting of the Book of Genesis as a computer programming job, I was sucked in. Funny and smart. What’s not to like?

Well, actually, there is something that not everyone will like, and that’s the standard of editing. Font size changes randomly in the .epub version of the file and the punctuation is decidedly hit-and-miss show more at times. But it really doesn’t matter as much as you'd think it would. It’s slightly irritating and my inner copy editor was itching to take out a red pen, but after a while I gave up noting down the errors (yes, I really did start to write them all down – thinking that the author might like to know about them) and just sat down to enjoy the ride. show less

Maybe if Tamara just took her three wishes she wouldn't be the one tricked and trapped in a bottle granting wishes. Drawn, against her will, to her current master she wonders what it is about him that's different. Turns out he's a bonafide hero and only a hero could convince her that its a good idea to start a rollercoaster of a quest to free Tamar the Black from the curse by finding the djinn who tricked her, Askphrit, not an easy task.
Enjoyable, humorous take on the master djinn show more relationship though a tad slow in places. I recognised elements of Labyrinth, the movie with David Bowie interwoven thorough the story, though that had nothing to do with Djinns. show less