Amir has lived all his life in splendour, being the son of a wealthy businessman. But when his mother disappears at his father’s factory, Amir is the only one who feels sure she’s not gone forever.

When a strange jinn shows up on his doorstep with clues to his mother’s whereabouts, Amir finds himself following Shamsa into the realm of the jinn – a world of trickery, tests and deceit.

But could his mother also be hiding in this world of pink seas and purple skies, and could a jinn princess be his key to finding her?

Amir is a young lad who has been brought up in wealth and privilege. His family owns one of the most profitable businesses in Pakistan, Rafiq Bricks Company. His father and older siblings have a very narrow-minded and warped way of looking at the world. They focus on profit and how they are better than others because they have money.

Amir doesn’t share their views but feels stuck that his life and path have been chosen for him and that he is destined to work at the company. He is also heartbroken as his mother went missing months ago after a visit to the family factory. He wants to find her before his father remarries and when a Jinn princess turns up in his bedroom he knows that she is the only one who can help him locate his mother, but not in this world.

Amir and the Jinn Princess has been beautifully written. The opening chapter will probably, like it did to me, have you hating Amir and his stuck-up nonsense but it doesn’t take long before his true colours are shown and his likeable character comes through.

The book moves at a fast pace and is completely enjoyable the whole way through. The characters have been superbly created and the Jinn realm is both colourful and divine.

Overall, Amir and the Jinn Princess is a fantastic middle-grade read that is both exciting and touching. There are plenty of life lessons within the pages and I do hope that the readers realise that wealth does not make someone a better person, ever.

M.T. Khan is a speculative fiction author with a penchant for all things myth, science, and philosophy. She focuses on stories that combine all three, dreaming of evocative worlds and dark possibilities.

When she’s not writing, M.T. Khan has her nose deep in physics textbooks or glued to her CAD computer as she majors in Mechanical Engineering. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, she currently resides in Toronto, Canada, with a hyperactive cat and an ever-increasing selection of tea.