"Yet from the rippling earth now rose a woman – shall we call her that? A creature with anatomy – face, breasts, hips, wide feet on thick legs – but her skin was all autumn leaf, and her hair was of brambles that twisted and twined about her skull, and her eyes were the colour of amber, and her tongue dripped white sap, and when she looked on Kosaca Davud, she hissed in the language of the stalk as it rots upon the wet soil." (From "Hurrem and the Djinn" by Claire North. Located in The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories.)

I greatly enjoyed this anthology about djinns as each story has a fresh take on these most ancient of beings. I particularly loved this description in Claire North's story of one of the many djinns she creates and had to draw it for myself.