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

5.0

Fantastic read. It's exciting, thought-provoking, mysterious, and even fantastical in the whole quest to solve an ancient mystery way. Sloan's writing is amazing! Funny, quirky, very much reminding me of my own awkward way of talking and the paradigm of professional young adult still doesn't know what to do with their life. And yet the prose is also flowing and subtle, elegantly harkening back to the fantasy books that made many people fall in love with reading, as is reflected with the fictional Dragon-Song Chronicles series in the novel, and the protagonist's love of them. I will absolutely be reading this again someday.