The author creates two mythical characters that eventually come together in 1899 in New York City. The creatures are a golem , which is a figure of Jewish myth, an automaton made of earth or clay, brought to life to do the bidding of another and a jinni (or genie), a figure of Arab myth, a magical creature of fire. The tale includes how the creatures come into being and how they survive in the new world they are thrown into. She touches on the inner workings of New York City at the turn of the century with all of the incoming immigrants and living conditions.
This book had a lot of good reviews and I was really looking forward to reading it, unfortunately, I did not really enjoy the book. I felt like the first half of the book was laying the foundation for the story and then the climax of the story really never came. There was so much building of background for the story that I found myself skimming through paragraphs at a time to get to the meat of the story. It had a great premise, it just took way to long to get there.
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