Saad Hossain
Auteur de The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
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Œuvres de Saad Hossain
Bring Your Own Spoon {short story} 2 exemplaires
Djinns Live by the Sea {short story} 1 exemplaire
The Endless 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4 (Apex World of Speculative Fiction) (2015) — Contributeur — 81 exemplaires
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Twelve (2018) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires
Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene (Twelve Tomorrows) (2022) — Contributeur — 26 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 20th century
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Bangladesh
- Lieux de résidence
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Courte biographie
- Saad Z. Hossain writes in a niche genre of fantasy, science fiction and black comedy with an action-adventure twist. He lives and works in Bangladesh; he writes in English.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 10
- Membres
- 558
- Popularité
- #44,766
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 24
- ISBN
- 21
- Langues
- 2
The premise was kind of fun. There are a couple main POV characters, but we start off with Indelbed, a young boy living in poverty with an alcoholic father. He soon learns that his life isn’t what it appears to have been. Djinn are real, and his mother was one, and his father is an emissary to the djinn. Indelbed gets imprisoned by a djinn and tries to escape. Meanwhile, his cousin and aunt, who have also just learned of the existence of the djinn, take a crash course on djinn politics.
For some reason the story really didn’t hold my attention well, even though I kept feeling like it was the sort of thing I should have enjoyed more. The writing was fine, the setting was fleshed out pretty well, I liked the characters ok, and I was interested in the story on the surface of things, I just never felt compelled to read more to find out what would happen next. It also started to go downhill for me closer to the end. I’m not convinced the main villain’s motivations made that much sense and I was very, very unhappy with the direction one of the characters took toward the end.
I was going to give this 3 stars until I read the abrupt and unsatisfying ending. That pushed it down to 2.5 stars and I was tempted to go even lower, but I’ll round up to 3 on Goodreads based on my enjoyment level for the rest of the story.… (plus d'informations)