In overstated simplification, The Golem and the Jinni is a story about two improbable beings discovering themselves, and each other, in a time and a place where neither belong. The setting is the New York of 1899, with flashes of the past lives that set the stage on which our actors perform, yet th...
I was SO excited to dive into this one and I'm really disappointed. Let me start by saying that the book isn't badly written and the characters are nicely fleshed out. It very well might be a problem on my end. Up to a little more than half way through, the pace was kind of slow and I wasn't able to...
This was a terrific fantasy novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City. It tells the story of two immigrant misfits, a golem and a jinni, and how they come to confront their separate issues of identity in a foreign land. The author, Helene Wecker, writes with such amazing skill and in an easy, c...
I feel like this will be a hard review to write, not because I didn’t like the book, but because I did like it, and I’m finding it hard to explain why.I mean, it’s a book about Chava the Golem and Ahmed the Jinny (genie) and the story of how they meet and why. I read in another review that the perso...
This was very enjoyable, and anyone looking for realistic fantasy should invest in this one. The author reaches out to her audience with characters who could relate to a wide range of personality types. This novel is ideal for history buffs and readers looking for something new in the paranormal de...
I was hesitant to pick this book up. I was not sure I'd like it. Well, I loved it. It is so well-written. It gives the legends of the Jewish golem and the Arab jinni and combines them in what I would call a love story. No, it is not a bodice ripper but it is a story of love and sacrifice. A middle-a...
I never thought I would be thrilled by the romance between a Golem and a Jinni, unnatural though it may be. It was hardly superficial, and I could feel the realness of it. *sighhh*
This book is probably one of the most difficult I've ever tried to write a review for.It's not a difficult book to read, but it has a lot going on (now with a lot of characters), and it's like an onion with it's many layers (go, go common metaphor!) At the most basic level - it's about its two princ...
Although this book is, as the title implies, about two supernatural creatures... the core of this story is about the human condition. Chava (the golem) and Ahmad (the jinni) are both new to America, just like the countless immigrants that surround them in this tale set in 1899 New York City. The t...
In a nutshell: the audio version was beautifully done and I truly enjoyed listening to it, but I doubt I would have made it through if I'd tried to read it myself. I probably would have been bored out of my mind. So, I've had this book in my to-read pile for a while, probably for the same reasons ...
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