Book Review: The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker

Book #251 of 2021: The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker (The Golem and the Jinni #2) This long-awaited sequel to 2013’s The Golem and the Jinni is another lovely piece of historical fantasy, following those two beings from Jewish and Arabian folklore as they navigate the next stages of their life in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York …

Book Review: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Book #52 of 2015: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker I wasn’t sold at first, but I ended up really liking this story about two mythical beings in nineteenth-century New York. It definitely got better as it went along – the beginning is brimming with characters that don’t have a clear relation to …

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