The Forbidden Book

I honestly didn’t want to pick this book up. I really forced myself to read the last part of it and it kind of put me into a reading slump. My expectations were so high with When Angels Left the Old Country being one of my favorite books of all time, and this sadly did not live up the standard that......more

I don't really know what to say about this book. The characters were quite forgettable and they had basically no personality traits. The book was either too short or too complex for its length. I would reread passages multiple times and still have no clue what was going on. The story was told in the......more

*3,5 I think I would've liked this more if I loved their previous book less. I missed the unique way of storytelling and pacing. It was really easy to read this book but I'm not gonna re-read it anytime soon unfortunately.......more

Sacha Lamb's "When The Angels Left The Old Country" is one of my all-time favourites, so when I got a chance to read an ARC of The Forbidden Book I was elated, but also nervous, because how does someone follow up a book like that? With a knife-wielding, genderqueer, possessed runaway lesbian, of cou......more

What a wonderful adventure of a book! I’ve been complaining lately that a lot of books I read are so afraid that I might not understand something right away that they explain everything. This book trusts the reader to figure it out — the magic, the Yiddish, the characters’ motivations. It’s so good......more