![]() ![]() Are you a fan of The Hunger Games and Harry Potter? GRADE: B The title page says: Edinburgh Nights Book One–so I’m assuming more volumes in this series are on their way. But, all in all, I enjoyed The Library of the Dead. A good Editor would have tightened up the action. ![]() That leads Ropa to the secret Library of magic hidden under David Hume’s tomb and a confrontation with an Evil beyond her powers to contend with.Īlthough The Library of the Dead is being marketed as a Young Adult novel, there are some disturbing parts of the book that might upset younger readers. But Ropa’s Gran convinces Ropa to search for the missing child. When a ghost begs Ropa to find her missing grandson, Ropa initially rejects the plea because the ghost has no way to pay her. Ropa supports her younger sister, Izwi, and her elderly Gran in a caravan home in Edinburgh, Scotland, living in poverty. Ropa eeks out a meager business of delivering messages from the ghosts to the Living. Ropafadzo “Ropa” Moyo is a teenage girl with the power to speak to ghosts. If you took Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games and Harry Potter and put them in a blender, you’d get something like The Library of the Dead. ![]()
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