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This is so delightful!

This is so much fun to read, and also so completely different from the Disney cartoon.

This book is terrible and I want to fling it into the ocean.

"Some things you never know you need until you find them."

FINALLY somebody has been murdered! Took them long enough.

I like the IDEA of this book much more than the actual book itself, a fact which is making me grumpy. Why aren’t you as good as you could be, book?

This is such a wonderfully weird and delightful book.

"Here's a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted."

Man, this book is sadder and darker than I remembered (or maybe I'm projecting). Still really really good, though.

"He was like a song she'd heard years back, played again in a quiet room; there was no telling if the song was any good, or if she only remembered it fondly because of the person she'd been long ago, when she heard it first."

"He smiled as though she was an old friend, as though he had been waiting for Jo a long time and was delighted to see her at last."

Such a swoon-worthy meet-cute.

"You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask."

"She shook her head, but then leaned into him, as though taking shelter. He drew her close, the crown of her head beneath his cheek...He thought, if he could pick a moment to be taken into the flask, a moment to live in endlessly, perhaps he would choose this one: the passing city, and the woman at his side."

I forgot how many narrative threads she's holding at the same time, several different timelines and different places. And then how brilliantly and elegantly she brings them all together.

Gahh, the golem and the jinni are giving me such shippy feels.

"Every fiber of his being yearned to turn east, to go to the window on Broome; to stand underneath it until she came down to meet him. The longing for her, as stark as any he'd ever felt, brought a confused anger."

All of the characters are so carefully and specifically drawn, and not just the two main ones or the handful of supporting ones, but even the minor ones. Everybody seems so real. In the minor ones, Maryam Faddoul is my favorite:
"It was clear that Maryam's smile shone from her belief in the better nature of those around her."

Man, she's so good at the world-building. Of all the books I've read about New York City, this one definitely stands out in the way it captures the feel of the city. It has such a quietly assured sense of place. And it's so much fun comparing my images of the city's specific places with the characters' descriptions of them - Ahmed discovering the Mall and Bethesda Terrace in Central Park was especially exciting.