Weavingshaw by Heba Al-WasityMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The first in a new trilogy, Heba Al-Wasity's debut novel pairs very well with the works of her fellow hijabi fantasy writer Hafsah Faizal - particularly A Tempest of Tea and A Steeping of Blood, being that this book is set in a fantasy counterpart of Victorian England with a significant minority community of a MENA fantasy counterpart culture, the Algaarans. Though this book is less a vampire story about colonialism and more of a straight up gothic ghost story, it's no less great for it, with the pages flying fast in this compulsively readable atmosphere. I hope to see the second book drop as soon as possible, and that this series does maintain its original trilogy promise in a world increasingly dominated, for whatever reason, by duologies.
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