I appreciated that The Library of the Dead explores the material conditions Ropa is bound to throughout the book. Ropa is trying to unravel the mystery of the missing children, but she also has to take on cases and jobs to make money.
The Library of the Dead is, what I can just try to describe, a supernatural slice of life meets action. I was expecting a story about a magical library and while this isn’t a lie, it isn’t as prominent as I expected. While The Library of the Dead is not at all what I expected, I ended up enjoying the setting immensely. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.) (Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. 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. But as shadows lengthen, will the hunter become the hunted?
She’ll need to call on Zimbabwean magic as well as her Scottish pragmatism to hunt down clues. When a child goes missing in Edinburgh’s darkest streets, young Ropa investigates.
And even though the setting of The Library of the Dead is some sort of alternate future Scotland, I had so fun reading! Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. I have been searching for books that transport me back to Scotland forever. You know those books that just attract your nostalgia? That was me reading The Library of the Dead.
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