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A review by bookgoonie
The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman
4.0
Nora gets accepted onto a team with her best friend Chris, because of her ability to translate Latin. Chris’ professor, the Hoff, is working on cracking the code in The Book that will lead to the Lumen Dei. She is assigned the task of translating Elizabeth Weston’s letters. She is kind of miffed at being stuck rooting around the musings of the daughter of Edward Kelly, alchemist to the Emperor, and not the heart of the mystery. To her surprise, she really got into Elizabeth and her thoughts. To the surprise of everyone, she ends up being the key to the bigger picture. Once this is discovered, people on the project start being targeted. Murdered. In order for Nora to solve the murder and the mystery, she will find herself in Prague fighting for her life.
I kind of have to stop here, because I don’t want to ruin anything. I really enjoyed this book. There isn’t much that gets me more excited than following a mystery left for us in old books and letters. Nora and Elizabeth’s connection between centuries easily drew me in. I loved ducking into dark alleys, breaking into monasteries and hunting down clues. This is the first YA book I’ve read in this contemporary-history-mystery-type genre. I used to gobble their adult counterparts up exclusively. If you like Dan Brown books, The Historian, or The People of the Book, I think you’ll love this. With that being said, it isn’t perfect. The characters aren’t as rich, but I don’t feel that is necessary. The contemporary characters are kind of the medium to carry you along the larger story. The heart of the story is Elizabeth Weston. Her sacrifice, her discoveries, her love is the one we are really following here.
A mystery for the ages that has you questioning love and loyalty and most of all should man be able to converse with God.
I kind of have to stop here, because I don’t want to ruin anything. I really enjoyed this book. There isn’t much that gets me more excited than following a mystery left for us in old books and letters. Nora and Elizabeth’s connection between centuries easily drew me in. I loved ducking into dark alleys, breaking into monasteries and hunting down clues. This is the first YA book I’ve read in this contemporary-history-mystery-type genre. I used to gobble their adult counterparts up exclusively. If you like Dan Brown books, The Historian, or The People of the Book, I think you’ll love this. With that being said, it isn’t perfect. The characters aren’t as rich, but I don’t feel that is necessary. The contemporary characters are kind of the medium to carry you along the larger story. The heart of the story is Elizabeth Weston. Her sacrifice, her discoveries, her love is the one we are really following here.
A mystery for the ages that has you questioning love and loyalty and most of all should man be able to converse with God.