I expected more from this book I really did. I thought the idea of having magic and magical inquisitors who go around enforcing magic use was going to be exciting, but sadly something got lost in this book. 
 I felt the majority of this book focused on teaching the readers about the Jewish culture and history of NY, and really forget about doing one important thing - developing characters and plot. There was so much background and history and by the end of the book I felt as if I didn't know one character from another and wasn't totally sure what was going on with the plot.