Please read this, it's amazing. It's a quick and snappy read and a hilarious, irreverent romp that gleefully mashes scifi tech and magic together and stands back to watch the explosion; but it's also quite seriously interested in questions of class, capitalism, and personhood in its *fascinatingly* worldbuilt post-climate-crisis Kathmandu. The writing is as nuanced as it is entertaining--Hussein packs so much into so little space while making you laugh every other page. The main cast are lovable while mostly being a bit horrible (there's a pistachio-loving murderer, a djinn king who wants to rule the world but primarily just for partying purposes, a djinn equivalent of a teenager, an AI that is supposed to be devoted entirely to fairness and not have a personality...) (and a hapless(?) normal(?) human being or two caught in the middle...). I kind of want their road trip book. And the exploration of utopia and AI takes an incisive, potentially unfamiliar, and very satisfying angle. Seriously, read and enjoy.