The Haunting of Tram Car 015

By: P. Djeli Clark

Narrated by: Julian Thomas

P. Djeli Clark returns to the historical fantasy universe of A Dead Djinn in Cairo, with the otherworldly adventure novella The Haunting of Tram Car 015.

Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities - handling a possessed tram car. Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner, Agent Onsi Youssef, are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and sentient automatons in a race against time to protect the city from an encroaching danger that crosses the line between the magical and the mundane.

©2019 P. Djeli Clark (P)2019 Recorded Books

Intriguing worldbuilding and fun characters!

I love the worldbuilding in this series and this was another exciting addition. Short and fun mystery that left me wanting to explore more of the storyworld's lore.

Excellent book, reasonably well performed

The story is excellent and a great prelude to A Master of Djinn. I found the performance to be fine and I don’t understand the negative reviews of Mr. Thomas’ performance. While he reads a little slowly for my taste, this was easily resolved by playing it at 1.2X speed, and it certainly did NOT detract from the story. Don’t skip this fine and well performed book.

Great story read incredibly well

This story really surprised me. I loved the light-heartedness and the mystery/adventure.

Julian Thomas’ reading/performance was well done and really added to the fun.

Great Addition

This is a fun little side story to the author's other works in the same world. I highly recommend listening to it before going on to A Master of Djinn.

Un-listenable!

The narrator is horrible! Poor enunciation, atrocious “Egyptian” accent. I’ll be returning this book as I couldn’t last more than 5 minutes. I’ll get it in ebook.

I assume the story is good, as I’ve enjoyed the others in the series, but this narrator is awful. Thank goodness the GOOD narrator is doing the full-length novel!!

great story

I love this author, the world the story is set in and the narrator just sealed the deal. so good!

Steampunk Cairo

Well written and well read story. I hope that the author writes more in this world. And that Audible records them.

Wonderful story but poorly executed

I enjoyed the author’s follow-up and felt it was a nice expansion on the story of A Dead Djinn in Cairo. However, I could barely make it through the audiobook because the narration was so monotone. Rarely have I listened to a performer as dreary as this one. Even lines such as “‘Get out!’ He yelled” were delivered in the same uninterested tone as though the performer was conversing with an old acquaintance whom he did not enjoy. I won’t purchase a book with this performer again, waste of my credit.

Story was good but mixed on narrator

I liked the story and the narrator was good except for the accent he used. He sounded Nigerian, not Egyptian. If you know the difference they sound about as similar as a Texas accent and a NY accent. I did get used to it near the end.

Did Not Finish - flat narration, complex story

I bought 3 of this author's books at once, and started with this one as it appears to be the earliest. The narration was obviously going to hinder my enjoyment but I tried to power through. With just a little over an hour left to finish the book I am giving up. Also, the story started out slow. I love descriptions, but in this case the balance of way too much description and way too little happening in the beginning was also a drag. The story picked up speed toward the middle. Sentences that started out with "He" for a character that then included "she" or "her" for the same character in the same sentence kept pulling me out of the story. But, then since there was a character also in the story that randomly and quickly changed genders, I wondered if these sentences were deliberate - even though they were not about the gender-changing character. But, every time it happened I missed part of the story since I was wondering if this was a narration mistake or part of the writing. Too confusing, and not worth the effort to tolerate and finish. I read the reviews for the next book and think I will just move on to the next, A Dead Djinn in Cairo. Looks good.