Review:Three books in on this series. It's just ok. I still like the world and some of the characters, the magic etc. I have the same reservations I had from the 1st book. I hoped things would improve, but I think they've gotten worse. There are a lot of little details that started to bug me about this series.

Frequent PoV changes, especially to characters that I don't think need/deserve their own PoV. Practically every named character gets PoV and it just muddies things up in my opinion.
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Review:I am fascinated by the birth of the nation of Israel. This novel is wonderful I love the characters. Their stories are tragic and captivating. How could people survive what they survived, but they did in this novel and in reality. Read more

Review:While I do agree with the fellow reviewer who found this book hard to finish, I feel as though I should point out one thing. It is fiction written for fictions sake. I highly enjoyed The Red Tent but found The Gilded Chamber boring. With Sarah I just didn't enjoy the writing style. Fiction should be for story telling, if you want fact go for a biblical studies book. Personaly I just want a well told tale, but did not find it in this book. Seemed choppy and hard to follow. Read more

Review:Excellent character development. So good to look inside the lives of people that life has not always been good and to see survival techniques developed and the beauty and ugliness existing side by side. Read more

Review:When I put The Idiot on my to be read list, I believed that it was going to be a quirky novel with cultural interests. It is somewhat quirky but Selin's Turkish heritage plays little part in the story and the only references to Turkish culture are about the language. Selin has just started her freshman year at Harvard and tries to make friends while navigating the strange academic environment. In a Russian class, she meets Svetlana and the pair become friends while she begins a friendship wit... Read more

Review:I'm marveled by the author's writing skill and his wits.
But as an Asian born person, I do not find this book particularly appealing.
I bought this because Tim Ferriss recommended in his night time routine.... Read more

Review:Wonderful storyteller telling a wonderful story. Just when I thought I could not read a better book set in India and Kashmir, along comes Ms. Roy and blows me away with another wonderful tale set in that exotic, mysterious place. Thank you Ms. Roy. Read more

Review:Just to be clear from the beginning, I was one of the lucky few to receive this book before the release date and give a review if I wanted. Which I oh so do :)

This was an amazing book! I am the kind of person who loves to read a book where the world is painted for them, which Storm Glass did not disappoint. There are two main characters Sera and Cettie and the point of view switches between the two throughout the book. I loved both of these girls, they have such detailed personalities th... Read more

Review:I found that I became an avid fantasy enthusiast after reading the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit. There was an endless search I went through for a book with a similar appeal Tolkien was able to generate through his style of writing. I never thought I would enjoy that kind of adventure again. But I did! I think everyone can agree that authors who take on such a project will have many difficulties building the proper atmosphere and characters a fantasy book/series should have. This is o... Read more

Review:I walked away from this book with a new perspective I didn't have before. A deeper level of empathy about a people who are forgotten in America. Although this book is fiction, you can tell its stories are real - the emotion is real and built from first hand experiences of what the author has both himself experienced and knows firsthand about.

I highly recommend this book. Required reading. I'm sorry it's a downer but we owe it to those whose history have been white-washed to acknowledge w... Read more