People kept telling me this wasn't like The Night Circus but I thought it was so similar! In a good way. Chock full of magic and fascinating characters and beautiful prose. Lovely lovely lovely.

A lovely allegory about ghosts, both the ones in our homes and the ones in our hearts.

Overdone and not funny. I think this is for old people. I'm keeping my copy for the recipes, but wouldn't recommend it.

A game changer, truly.

This was even worse the second time. The plotting and pacing are garbage, the slang is obnoxious to the point it pulls you out of the story, Evie is a stupid vapid wretch who

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solves the entire crime and defeats the bad guy with zero help from any of the other waste-of-fucking-space characters, and then there are sixty more fucking pages of filler so there can be sequels

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Haunting, troubling, engrossing.

It wasn't as scary as I hoped, but I loved that it took place on a mountain and that it had all the elements of ancient texts and mythology. Arcane horror is the best kind of horror.

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I loved that it possessed Meryam and she couldn't even go to Adam's funeral, but I hate that she accepted the demon because she was pregnant. So lame.

This book did a decent job of summarizing all of the dangling plot lines but there were too many characters by the end to leave the reader satisfied with the simple ending, and the lack of information given about the contents of the Book of Life was incredibly frustrating. The perspective changes from first to third were jarring. This was an enjoyable conclusion to the trilogy, but lacked the depth and creativity that were promised in the beginning of the tale.

This was good, and I just love Hearne's world building. But I felt like it lacked the fun of the earlier books, and I wished Atticus and Granuaile had spent more time together.