A review by koberreads
Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

adventurous challenging dark funny inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

She was quiet for a moment. Then she laughed. “Sure, Jacob. I think that sounds nice.” She took my hand, leaned toward me, and kissed me on the cheek. “Now that we have time.” And it occurred to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in the English language. We have time. 

Damn! WHAT A JOURNEY! Ransom Riggs got me. He gave me my Childhood. The most adventurous and surreal childhood I never had. I think all of us never had such extraordinary mind blogging and time jumping childhood.

I am not exactly poor or neglected when I was child but to be honest, I felt that it was not enough. Not because my life is too ordinary or my friends are too normal when I was child but rather I did not decide to enjoy it or focus on the few but lovely and very human and peculiar friends I have in their own way. Riggs is right, our lives are extraordinary, we just fail to see it that way which cause us to be bored and label everything beautiful and amazing in our lives as ordinary.

Read the book, but I do advice start from from the first one, first. The plot and time breaking concepts of course wont make first at sense (it only did make all sense to me at my second read which is now, my first read is a few year ago) but nonetheless I still enjoyed the whole story along with the photos, because you could never expect the plot as much as the next photo that Ransom Riggs will show you and weave a story around to connect to the whole multiverse like web of story line. (The book will always be better than the future movies or series version of this but of course still watch those if they do arise in order to support Ransom Riggs) 

It is bad to compare harry potter or Tolkien with this unless I want to be berated by fans of those books but I just want to say,  I never found my harry potter book or Tolkien book when I was a kid (maybe a part from Percy Jackson books) but this is my harry potter book or Tolkien book.

Dont be afraid or dont feel bad for reading fiction. I read a lot of nonfiction books, big ones that are best sellers, from Mark Manson and Ryan Holiday and a great one from Hans Rosling "Factfulness" they have there place and value but fiction is a whole other kind of fruit that will nurture and give you lessons that you often consume unconsciously.

As long as you a reading and enjoy what you are reading, it is healthy and if you are self-help improvement junkie, according to Mark Manson, the healthiest form of escape better than netflix or any other streaming services.

We always have time especially reading fiction. You always have time, you just dont know it yet or dont realize it yet.

We have time