A review by heathercottledillon
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

4.0

"Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" is not at all what I expected, but I loved it. I had trouble following some of the technological details (okay, a lot of the technological details, and I'm a librarian so it's kind of embarrassing to admit), but that didn't keep me from enjoying the mystery and feeling the characters' anticipation right along with them. I love that there's this whole mysterious, exciting world created by books, and Sloan's writing style creates the perfect atmosphere. How can you not love lines like "We need James Bond with a library science degree" and "I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf"? It's just good, nerdy fun.