Secret of the Djinn

Dungeons & Dragons: Endless Quest #38

by Jean Rabe, Jeff Easley (Cover Artist), Terry Dykstra (Illustrator)

You are a young pearl diver who is propelled into an amazing adventure when you uncork an old bottle you discover at the bottom of the sea.

You are whisked far from your home in Zakhara, the Land of Fate, on a magical quest to free the king of the sea djinn. There are many decisions you must make along the way. You are courageous and clever, but can you hope to overcome the dangers that lie before you? Riches and fame could be yours if you choose the correct path.

Only your choices can help you discover the Secret of the Djinn.

Genres: Gamebooks, Fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons, Fiction

188 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1994

About the author

When I am not writing, I toss tennis balls to my cadre of dogs. My house is filled with books and dogs, you can smell both when you walk in the front door. It's a good smell.

I have 36 published novels and am currently writing in the mystery genre. My latest mystery, The Dead of Winter, was a finalist for the Claymore Award and is the first in the Piper Blackwell series.

I live in a tiny town in the middle of Illinois that has a Dollar General, a pizza place with exceedingly slow service, a veterinarian (good thing, eh?), and train tracks...lots of train tracks.

Reviews

[Nich · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a great little adventure, I love the world of AL-QADIM and the land of Zakhara. In this, you are Jamil a young pearl diver who finds a bottle while diving that kicks off an amazing journey around the land of fate.

I recently read an Indiana Jones version of one of these and this was a much more engaging story and feel like it was better done. I will probably seek out and see if there are more in this series. If you want a short fun read then I'd highly recommend it.

[Nick Jones · Rating 2 out of 5]

"In this book you are Jamil"

I don't want to be Jamil. Jamil is a cowardly, selfish, petty idiot. That's the trouble with stories that have "you" thinking this or "you" doing that when the "you" is a defined character severely at odds with the reader's own identity. This is also yet another Endless Quest book where there are massive stretches with no input from the reader, which makes me wonder why Jean Rabe didn't just write the story of Jamil as a regular book, when that is clearly what she wanted to do anyway.

[Jacob Givogue · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this book when I was 12. It was the first time I’d ever read a novel situated in ‘middle eastern’ culture. In this sense, it was influential as I became more receptive to stories taking place in this cultural context.

A three star rating is based on the level of enjoyment I experienced at the time I read the text, and on the impact the novel had on the development of my thinking.