![]() ![]() For Edinburgh hides a wealth of secrets, and Ropa’s gonna hunt them all down. She’ll dice with death (not part of her life plan…), discovering an occult library and a taste for hidden magic. But what she learns will change her world. It’s on Ropa’s patch, so she feels honor-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. Now she speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to the living. ![]() Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker. This review will be as spoiler free as possible, though may contain very light spoilers. NOTE: I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley and Tor Books. All of the elements are there, but the plot, itself, feels a bit like an afterthought. It just tries to be too many different things at once and comes off as unfocused instead of compelling. It’s not a bad book by any stretch of the imagination. The Library of the Dead falls into the latter camp, suffering from a pretty chronic case of first-book-in-a-series syndrome. Some books get the balancing act between all of these perfectly right. And they try to tell their own self-contained, satisfying narratives. They spend a lot of time expanding the series’ universe, sowing the seeds for future books. Often, the first books of a series try to be too many things all at once. There’s a pretty common problem that many first books in a series suffer from. ![]()
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