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A review by bites_of_books
The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
This was a really fun book!
I personally like darker settings with alternate contemporary worlds. Here we see an alternate Edinburgh where magic is real and can be derived from what we know as science. People can also have work as mediums between ghosts and living people, carrying messages and doing certain tasks for them. Ropa is one of these mediums or ghostalkers! She lives with her grandmother, younger sister, and has a fox for a pet/familiar. Ropa is just trying to make money for the rent and food so she has set rules of not doing work for nothing.
This all changes when a ghost comes to her knowing full well that her living family can't pay and pleas for help finding her son who has been kidnapped. Ropa is persuaded to help and so she finds herself in the middle of a whole plot that involves multiple kidnapped children, a strange house, and encounters with old "friends".
I loved also her new friendship with Priya, a young woman she meets at the mysterious Library. The banter is hilarious and I felt like Priya brought out another side to Ropa, which was awesome.
Overall a really fun book and I'm looking forward to the next one!
I personally like darker settings with alternate contemporary worlds. Here we see an alternate Edinburgh where magic is real and can be derived from what we know as science. People can also have work as mediums between ghosts and living people, carrying messages and doing certain tasks for them. Ropa is one of these mediums or ghostalkers! She lives with her grandmother, younger sister, and has a fox for a pet/familiar. Ropa is just trying to make money for the rent and food so she has set rules of not doing work for nothing.
This all changes when a ghost comes to her knowing full well that her living family can't pay and pleas for help finding her son who has been kidnapped. Ropa is persuaded to help and so she finds herself in the middle of a whole plot that involves multiple kidnapped children, a strange house, and encounters with old "friends".
I loved also her new friendship with Priya, a young woman she meets at the mysterious Library. The banter is hilarious and I felt like Priya brought out another side to Ropa, which was awesome.
Overall a really fun book and I'm looking forward to the next one!