It's hard to believe this is a first novel. The writing is assured third person. The characters and story are interesting. Everything holds together and was intriguing enough that I kept reading through all 600 pages of the novel wanting to know what was going to happen to the two main characters. I can even say I didn't know where the story was heading as I kept reading. I don't come across to many stories like that. This is a cross genre novel: fantastical, romantic, and historical.
Wecker creates two interesting characters in the Golem and Jinni. She breathes them into life and gives them plenty of room to grow. They become two wholly fleshed out characters as their story unfolds page after page. I like how she set them in the America when immigration was happening on a regular and legal basis. This historical setting adds so much weight and authenticity to the story as it becomes another character within the story. Wecker also injects some cultural ism into the story as Golem has a Jewish background and the Jinni a Syrian background, giving these characters each a world all to their own as they relate to each other and the world around them.
A truly remarkable first novel.
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