All her motives were self-serving as she always expected some kind of payment for the things she did. Even though she solves the mystery of why children are being kidnapped and what was happening to them, I don’t feel like she did it for the right reasons. At one point during the novel, I found myself wishing she would die ( spoiler alert: she lives). I found her to be very selfish, rude, and uncaring toward anyone who wasn’t paying her. Though I appreciated that she was family-oriented, doing what she could to support her grandmother and her little sister, that’s where her likability ended for me.

The next issue- and my biggest issue if I’m being honest- was the main character Ropa. The main character makes a reference to a cemetery that they used to bury people in the 1990s and no longer did, so I was able to deduce that this book doesn’t place in the 90s. I had a lot of issues with this novel, the first one being I didn’t have a clear sense of the time period in which it takes place. But then after a few days of being home, I picked it back up to finish reading it, and I had to force myself to finish it.

I didn’t dwell on it too much as the plane ride was quite bumpy during certain parts and I was excited to get back to Florida. I started reading it on the plane ride home, and it didn’t hold my interest. Everything from the book cover, to the title had me super excited to read it! I wrestled with buying it because I have so many other books to read and I haven’t made much progress on my 13 Books I Want to Read in 2022 List, but on my trip home to Pennsylvania, I made the decision to purchase it. Huchu is one of the books that I recently added to my to-read list after it caught my eye in a Barnes & Noble email. And in the process, she discovers an occult library and some unexpected allies.The Library of the Dead by T.L. ) as she calls on Zimbabwean magic and Scottish pragmatism to hunt down clues. She’ll dice with death (not part of her life plan. But what she learns will change her world. It’s on Ropa’s patch, so she feels honour bound to investigate. Until, that is, the dead whisper that someone’s bewitching children – leaving them husks, empty of joy and life. A girl’s gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough. Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker – and she now speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to the living. ‘I highly recommend The Library of the Dead ’ – Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series

‘A fast-moving and entertaining tale, beautifully written’ – Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of London Huchu is the first book in the Edinburgh Nights series. Opening up a world of magic and adventure, The Library of the Dead by T.

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