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Top Spot is a feature on My Shelf Confessions where we pick our favorite read for the month [it will be posted sometime at the end of the month or first week of the next month.] We make sure that there are no spoilers, we just explain WHY it is this particular book was our favorite for that month and deserves the Top Spot!

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Pabkins’ Top Spot Pick

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wrecker

This month I was pretty much blown away by this fabulous book The Golem and the Jinni – it was beautifully written with immersive characters and a time period that I never found myself as interested by until reading about it here. This book really brings so much to the table that even readers who aren’t normal fans of the historical fantasy genre would love and appreciate it. Check out my review!

Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master, the husband who commissioned her, dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899.

Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. Though he is no longer imprisoned, Ahmad is not entirely free – an unbreakable band of iron binds him to the physical world.

The Golem and the Jinni is their magical, unforgettable story; unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures – until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. But a powerful threat will soon bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice.

Find The Golem and the Jinni: Amazon| Goodreads

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April’s Top Spot Pick

 Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert

My Top Spot is so hard to choose this month – I feel like all the books I’ve read have been excellent! I chose Season of the Witch because it’s got such an awesome plot and the details are fascinating. It was not something I was expecting at all and it just got better and better.  Season of the Witch sucks you in and doesn’t let you go.. you will think about these characters after you read that final page, I’m sure.

 

SEASON OF THE WITCH is Natasha Mostert’s award-winning novel in which the art of memory, alchemy, mysticism and murder have been blended to create a nail-biting thriller.

Gabriel Blackstone is a cool, hip, thoroughly twenty-first century Londoner with an unusual talent. A computer hacker by trade, he is also a remote viewer: able to ‘slam a ride’ through the minds of others.

But he uses his gift only reluctantly — until he is contacted by an ex-lover who begs him to find her step-son, last seen months earlier in the company of two sisters.

And so Gabriel visits Monk House, a place where time seems to stand still, and where the rooms are dominated by the coded symbol of a cross and circle.

As winter closes in, Gabriel becomes increasingly bewitched by the house, and by its owners, the beautiful and mysterious Monk sisters. But even as he falls in love, he knows that one of them is a killer.

But which one? And what is the secret they are so determined to protect?

Find Season of the Witch: Amazon | Goodreads

 

The post Top Spot: The Golem and the Jinni & Season of the Witch was written by the author April. © My Shelf Confessions