Status Updates From Tales of the Marvellous and...

'Five years passed, during which she was impressed by the girl's cultivated intelligence, her skill, her mastery of Arabic poetry and her fondness for the unusual.'

I know 'Arus al-'Arais is a baddie or whatever, but I honestly so enjoyed the way she kept getting away with ever more elaborate and improbable evil schemes. Genuinely cackling by the end.