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Here is the place to discuss retellings, traditional tales, or books that contain Fire Creatures.
Examples: Djinn, Dragons, Phoenix, and more.

I read Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm by Siobhan McDermott as one of my picks for this one. It has both dragons and a phoenix.

I read manga The Ice Guy & The Cool Girl T01. The main protagonist has ice powers inherited from his Yuki-onna ancestor, perfect for the snow creatures category, but one of the side characters is a phoenix, and another a kitsune. It's a sweet romance set in Japanese corpoworld.

Books about Djinn I already read and enjoyed were:
Alif the Unseen, The Golem and the Jinni, HWJN, The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights ( a must read for any fairy-folk tale lover) , A Land Without Jasmine, The Hakawati, One Thousand and One Nights, A Hundred and One Nights, Djinn City

I’m still looking for something new this year!

I can never read enough Djinn books o I think I will read The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah for this prompt

Jalilah wrote: "I can never read enough Djinn books o I think I will read The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah for this prompt"

I might read that too! :)

I have The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years on my TBR and want to read it.

Margaret wrote: "I have The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years on my TBR and want to read it."

OMG I want to read this too!

Margaret wrote: "I have The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years on my TBR and want to read it."


I’m pleasantly surprised! My library actually has it and 11 people in the cue isn’t to bad! For a book that just came out this year I was not expecting this!

Andy wrote: "Jalilah wrote: "I can never read enough Djinn books o I think I will read The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah for this prompt"

I might read that too! :)"

Even though I am going to read the one Margaret mentioned, I will still read this one.

Jalilah wrote: "Margaret wrote: "I have The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years on my TBR and want to read it."


I’m pleasantly surprised! My library actually has it and 11 people in the cue isn’t to bad..."

Yay! Let me know if you want to do a buddy read of it. I have an arc of it, so I could start it at any time.

Margaret wrote: ".Yay! Let me know if you want to do a buddy read of it. I have an arc of it, so I could start it at any time.."

Absolutely! How about in March?

Jalilah wrote: "Margaret wrote: ".Yay! Let me know if you want to do a buddy read of it. I have an arc of it, so I could start it at any time.."

Absolutely! How about in March?"

Sounds good!

There are some interesting genies in Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones, but I don't think that they used fire at any point :) However, Calcifier from Howl’s Moving Castle is a great example of fire creature!
Also I liked Perfectly Tiny Dragon Fyrian from The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Morkeleb the Black from Dragonsbane

The title novella in The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories.

Here is a link to books with Djinn that I have read and enjoyed
/review/list...
The only one on this list that I have Not read The Jinn Daughter by Rania Hanna.
I plan on reading this book for the challenge as well.
Anyone interested in joining me?

Jalilah wrote: "Here is a link to books with Djinn that I have read and enjoyed
/review/list...
The only one on this list that I have Not read [book:The Jinn Daughter|189..."

Great list Jalilah! :)

Jalilah wrote: "Here is a link to books with Djinn that I have read and enjoyed
/review/list...
The only one on this list that I have Not read [book:The Jinn Daughter|189..."

There are several on that list I haven't read!

Although I have a copy of The Jinn Daughter, I don't think I have the time to read it right now!

I read Nayra and the Djinn and give it 4 stars. A whimsical coming-of-age graphic novel that weaves culture, imagination, and the perils of being a teenager.

I plan to read The Phoenix Keeper by SA MacLean. Looking forward to a book about a mythic zookeeper. It sounds right up my alley!

Others I have previously read and recommend are:
The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah. This is one of my favorite books. The characters, the setting, the adventure, and the mythological magic all wind together in an engrossing story!

A Consuming Fire by Laura E Weymouth. This may be something of a stretch but there is a rather fearsome fire god in this YA fantasy and I always love Laura's books.

Erin wrote: "I plan to read The Phoenix Keeper by SA MacLean. Looking forward to a book about a mythic zookeeper. It sounds right up my alley!

Others I have previously read and recommend are:
The Stardust Thie..."

I enjoyed The Phoenix Keeper!

Can someone tell me exactly how much fire is involved in The Stardust Thief? I ask because I have just started reading it with hopes of counting it for this challenge, and I read the prologue where it describes the origin story of the jinn being made of fire, but then in ch. 1 it seems like they're just magic users for all practical purposes. Will there be more fire happening later in the book?

I ask because I decided earlier in the year not to count Bee Sting Cake for this prompt because while the dragon in that book does do fire just a little bit right at the end, up until that point the dragon is not doing fire, just dropping cryptic riddles. I thought I could find something where the fire was more central by the end of the year, but am struggling. The other dragon books I've read have been not-fire-dragons at all (To Shape a Dragon's Breath: chemistry dragons, Dragonfruit: sea dragons).

I understand that I absolutely COULD count either of these books for "fire creatures," no one is stopping me, but if there isn't significantly MORE fire in The Stardust Thief than there was in Bee Sting Cake, I might be better off procrastinating it until January, when I could count it as a desert book for the 2025 challenge.

Kelsey wrote: "Can someone tell me exactly how much fire is involved in The Stardust Thief? I ask because I have just started reading it with hopes of counting it for this challenge, and I read th..."

I read 3 books featuring Djinn this year and none of them were particularly “firey� . One of them was The Stardust Thief and I’d say the Djinn in this story are probably closer to how the Djinn of legends are. According to the original mythology and folklore they are made of fire, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they always work with fire.
I counted this book, although I must say I didn’t like it that much.
The other books I read were The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years and The Jinn Daughter. The djinn in former was more like a spirit or a ghost than a djinn and the djinn in later was so unlike a djinn that I ended not even counting the book

The djinn that was the most like a creatureThe Golem and the Jinni