A review by oashackelford
The Library of Shadows by Rachel Moore

4.0

Este wants to be closer to her deceased father, so when the opportunity arises to attend his old boarding school she jumps on it. Something weird is going on at this school though, and it seems as though her father knew all along. Now she has to work out the small clues that he left her all while contending with the fact that she can see the schools ghosts.

I thought that this was a fun read, it was just also predictable. I figured out who the Heir of the Fades was right after they finished explaining what the Heir of the Fades was. I think that sometimes Authors feel like they need to have a twist, and that if we don't know who the real killer is that it will make the book more dramatic, but I think that it is way overdone. Every author puts a twist in their books now which makes them easier to spot if they aren't done as well. I wish we had known who the heir was the entire time, while Este was still trying to figure it out. I think that would have been a lot more dramatic.

I did like her developing relationships with the ghosts though. I would have liked her to get to know the other ghosts a little better though because I felt like those relationships could have been more interesting.

Spoiler

I also wanted to know if the other ghosts knew that Lillith had betrayed them, and why Mateo didn't just tell her not to trust Ives. It seems like from the yearbooks that she found that all of them knew a 15 year old lillith, so I don't understand why they wouldn't warn her. And did the whole school find out about the Ghosts and just rolled with it? I know it was in their newspaper, but I feel like as a student and a skeptic I would have questions about four new students that came from nowhere claiming to have been born in the past.