Crescent Moon Kingdoms: Throne of the Crescent Moon (Paperback)

from JeremyPreacher

Totally delightful. The Arabian-esque setting worked very well, the characters were charming (and what a pleasure it was to read about 60 year old heroes rather than just 20 year old heroes for once) and the plot worked out reasonably well. I could quibble a bit with the pacing - there's a big ch...

from nnschiller

This is really an excellent book. I have been intrigued by Arab fiction since I discovered Naghib Mahfouz' Children of the Alley and I found the setting and the phrasing of the dialog to be enthralling. Though far from the main thrust of the work, I kept finding myself enthralled by the God-tinge...

from lexilewords

Sword and Sorcery with Arabian Nights flare, THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON was a book I would gobbled up and read endlessly as a teen. Instead of the usual medieval society setting we have a the lush and evocative world of the Crescent Moon Kingdoms. Ruled over by the Khalif, but haunted by the mas...

from mirrani

Finding an Arabian/Islamic based fantasy book was really very refreshing. There are so many fantasy novels that focus on some typically European setting that this was truly a happy surprise. The culture in this off-Earth story is very well defined, different enough to be somewhat foreign, but als...

from kgodey

I first heard about Throne of the Crescent Moon on John Scalzi's blog - he has a series ("Big Idea") where sci-fi/fantasy writers talk about a recent book and the idea behind it. I was immediately impressed by Saladin Ahmed's thought process - bringing a Muslim perspective to fantasy, as well as ...