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Where the Library Hides

Isabel Ibañez

3.81 AVERAGE

jaceydemaree's review

3.25

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

lilac_cottage_library's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

direadsomebooks's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hknixon415's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

thegingerbookeditor's review

3.75

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

val_arias's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional medium-paced

sarahwilli's review

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hrh_victoria's review

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Nothing made sense. The timeline in this book completely contradicts book #1. I was hoping the magic system and motives would be better fleshed out here, but the author didn't bother. (Literally what are her parents motives? If they wanted money, why let Inez inherit their fortune? So completely implausible.)

Inez was annoyingly naive in the first book, but I hoped she'd grow from the way that ended. But it's worse now - as if she learned nothing. And the author keeps giving us a peek into Inez's predictable, shallow and selfish inner thoughts. Is this what the author thinks teenagers are like? 

The female audiobook narrator is still using a horrible cockney accent for the supposedly aristocratic male lead. Not to mention how incredibly out of place the whole plot is for the time period. It's like no one involved in this production even researched this facet of history--like they just watched The Mummy and maybe some snippets of the History channel and called it good.

sunshinestoriesandcoffee's review

5.0

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A worthy follow up to What The River Knows. Twists and turns all the way through with a satisfying ending. The descriptions are excellent all the way through, you can really feel like you're walking with Inez and Whit through Shepheards Hotel and along the streets of Alexandria. The epilogue is brilliant as well, the pictures of the characters are exactly as I imagined them. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Infidelity, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

katmosfeer's review

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes