scrooge3 's review for:

Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018 by Jason Sizemore

4.0

---

This is a moving story of the power of libraries and librarians. Librarians in this universe are literally witches who use books to shape the minds and lives of their patrons. The bulk of the story centers around an obviously troubled young man who is helped reach his destiny by the narrator, a witch-librarian who doesn't always follow the rules. Although there are some minor structural flaws with the story, I think it is the best of the short stories nominated this year.