![]() The action ranges beyond Little Syria and the Lower East Side: to Morningside Heights, to Brooklyn and most excitingly to the Ottoman Empire.Īlso, there’s more people, some with only a tenuous connection to Chava or Ahmad, doing stuff of their own, including, spoiler alert, constructing a golem in their tenement apartment (as one does). ![]() The books are the same length, roughly 480 pages, but The Hidden Palace covers about 15 years, a much greater span of time than G&J. What soon becomes apparent is how differently time is handled here. And this case, there’s the weight of thousands of readers’ expectations. They need to create the experience that readers loved the first time, but do more than just repeat it. But they need to explain things to people who never read the first volume yet not bore those who know it very well. Since they already have characters and a world, they seem like they should be easier than than starting anew. ![]() And sequels/continuations are harder than they appear. ![]() The Golem and the Jinni didn’t end on a cliffhanger - fortunate for the reader waiting eight years for this continuation, but not offering an obvious sequel path for the writer. ![]()
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