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660 reviews

Night by Elie Wiesel

5.0

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

4.0

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson

4.0

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

4.0

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

4.0

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

5.0

Divine Secrets of the YA-YA Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

5.0

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

4.0

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

4.0

Himself by Jess Kidd

4.0

This is magical realism at its finest. While there are horrifying crimes being solved and committed, it’s the ghosts that provide much of the comedic relief to an otherwise dark storyline. The way this novel weaves together two stories from two time periods all while honoring beautiful storytelling and whimsical prose, the reader drifts away to Ireland and is right there with the larger-than-life characters, clenching fists to try to solve the mysteries. I may have found a new favorite author. To have me fall in love with both the prose and the characters is a tough sell for me, but this novel did it.