Hyun Song We Books

Knowing that the author is the lyrical genius- Joseph Coelho –  is enough to know that this book is going to be exciting to read.

To open the book and find character descriptions with images was a real visual treat. Within this introduction, the use of vocabulary such as ‘top-secret’ and ‘classified’ helps to entice the reader to want to find out more and start reading. Plus, little things such as the prologue being on a black background with white writing bring a uniqueness to this book.

Each chapter begins with some poetry- a nod to Coelho’s many literary talents and the symbol of a spider’s bum which just happens to be the logo for the Hermitic Sodality of Genie Hunters. Every few chapters, there is also a beautiful illustration from Hyun Song We.

This adventure-filled book of hunters who take on the world’s most deadly and powerful genies is hard to put down. Relic Hamilton, London’s very own new genie hunter (and mudlarker) proves that hope is in abundance and reading this book filled me with it.  Plus, Relic, the Wielder of the Lamps will return. If I had a magic lamp, that’s exactly what I would have wished for…