MB Agencia Literaria

In the year 1120, Akil the jinn returns to the world of men to serve a young nobleman from Leon called Diego Tovar. Diego has lost his lands and is prepared to do anything to get them back. But the only way of achieving his aim is to steal a valuable manuscript from the messenger carrying it… And she turns out to be a girl called Sahar. Blue Fire is the first title in the Jinn Trilogy, created by the authors of La llave del tiempo [The time key], who this time have combined fantasy and adventure with historical fiction.

The historical framework sites the novel in the Iberian Peninsula in the early 12^th century: a convulsive period in Christendom due to clashes between the nobility, as well as in Al-Andalus, where, faced with cultural splendour, the Almoravids are imposing a new order. Jinn also introduces a fantastic universe with a mix of the magical traditions of the three cultures that co-existed in the Peninsula throughout the Middle Ages. The story’s main protagonists are four young people: Diego, a nobleman from Leon; Sahar, daughter of a renowned Muslim doctor from Seville; Yehudá, a cabalistic Jew from Toledo; and Olaya, heiress of a Galician count. The four see their destinies intertwined thanks to a mysterious character called Akil, a jinn with great powers and a heart who is gradually becoming more and more human… An enormously evocative fusion, due as much to its imaginative richness as to the values of tolerance and coexistence it upholds.