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After staring at the walls of your home for the past 14 months, you re probably ready for a little change of scenery. And so is everyone else; summer vaxcation travel is already picking up as every weekend seems to set a new record for pandemic-era travel. Excited though you might be to get to the pool, don t forget to put a good book in your bag for the flight. Here are the best 2021 beach reads, for every type of reader.
If you re looking for ⦠a sexy, satisfying romance
P. Djèlí Clark’s
A Master of Djinn is the literary equivalent of a cup of lovely mint tea: a refreshing, delightful and magical mystery to enjoy while absorbing vitamin D on a crisp spring day. The fourth installment and first full-length novel of Clark’s Dead Djinn Universe series, the smooth and welcoming A Master of Djinn provides the perfect amount of fan service to engage returning fans without alienating new readers.
In this fantastical version of our world, a man named Al-Jahiz tore a hole in reality in 1872, unleashing Djinn and magic across the earth. In the 50 years since, international governments have taken a variety of approaches to the new existence of the supernatural. In Egypt, magic has not only been allowed, but embraced. This decision put Egypt on the map as a world power, driving other countries (seemingly on the precipice of this world’s version of World War I) to meet for a peace summit in Cairo. The summit is only a few weeks away when a man claimi