![]() 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. Huchu's The Library of the Dead, a sharp contemporary fantasy following a precocious and cynical teen as she explores the shadowy magical underside of modern Edinburgh. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.My rating: ![]() I received an advance review copy of this book from NetGalley. Also in this series: Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments ![]()
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