❈ Books Read: 6 Pages Read: 2,932 Average Book Length: 414 pages Average Time to Finish: 4 days Average Rating: 3.88 Top Genre: Fantasy ❈ ~ ❈✨📖✨❈ ~ The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty Amina Al-Sirafi #1 Genre: Fantasy/Historical Setting: 12th Cen. Middle East Pages: 483 Format: Hardcover / Audiobook Amina Al-Sirafi has not been a pirate captain of the Indian Oceans in ten years, retiring to a life of motherhood and doing her best to live piously. When a wealthy visitor offers Amina life-changing riches in return for the rescue of their kidnapped granddaughter, Amina, motivated by getting her family out of poverty, gathers her former crewmates, begs God for forgiveness, and sets sail one last time on an adventure full of djinns, sea monsters, and... humanoid celestial birds? This was such a great book to start the year with. I was blown away when I read Chakraborty's Daevabad Trilogy , and with this I am still caught in that wind! The writing was funny ...