I give this book a 4.5.... The only reason why I couldn't give it a 5 was because it did not fully immerse me. The issue was is that the book is more of a collection of short stories of historical fiction which illuminate the passageway of the Sarajevo Haggadah through 500 years. I loved all the stories. Although the constant transitioning left me unsatisfied. It left me not wanting each story to end, and also made the book easier to put down at the end of each short story. 
 Now, I don't believe a great book necessarily has to be a page turner, although I find myself using the words "that book was amazing," when it is. Overall I think the novel really illuminates many different times in history when people had to suffer for their religion, and the author conveys to the reader that humanity is more important than to be of a certain religion. "It[the Haggadah] was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox." (p 361)