City of Ghosts: 1

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We don’t know how he died and why, the only thing we know is that he saved Cassidy’s life and is now bond with her. Because even though there didn’t happen a lot in this rather short fantasy book the writing style still kept me going and caused me to read on. Now serving as a Lieutenant, he is investigating a gruesome, macabre scene of five bodies laid on train tracks running parallel to each other. From the very first page, it is enthralling, impressive and thrilling, and there’s no doubt that it’s a perfect read for the spookiest month in the lunar calendar!

The dialogue and every interaction from the story are so reliable for those times, they all were so wary about everything and everyone as you couldn’t trust anyone, you didn’t know if a family member or friend was your ally or your enemies. Story wise, the idea was great -as usual- and the story got interesting more and more (it was really good from the ghost hunters part and after that).

I wish I could travel back in time and hand myself a copy of this when I was younger as it is such an incredible read and it was a book I would have loved with all my heart and soul. Cassidy can enter the '' veil '' a place where souls of people who died stay if they havent moved on yet. His investigation sees him delve back into his past as a young musician who was denounced, arrested and tortured.

Nothing special and it felt a little rushed, but it's based on a good idea, it had a great writing style and characters with a lot of potential. City of Ghosts is a middle grade novel that has such a perfect spooky atmosphere, and it’s set around scary places in Scotland. She loves fairy tales, and folklore, and stories that make her wonder if the world is really as it seems. Rossel is sensitive and caring and on the surface seems wholly unsuited to his role as a harbinger of the rules and regulations that so strictly dictate society, and this makes him a compelling and interesting character.

Sometimes you move between the worlds, you were dead, at least on the bridge of death, but you were saved. Of course, this book is by Victoria Schwab, and I don’t know if the woman is altogether comfortable with writing a story without any sadness. There was a little bit of foreboding at the end of the book so we’ll see what’s going to happen next.

Da mir das Setting bei „Black Sun“ sehr gefallen hat, habe ich mich auf „Der kalte Glanz der Newa“ sehr gefreut! I loved the deeper cultural richness of this book, as some of it revolves around the world of classical music, with some intriguing clues being woven into this thread of the novel. I saw some negative reviews (all from adult readers) which actually made me go into this with lower expectations. I didn’t get warm with Lara but she’s not really a cordial character so I guess I wasn’t supposed to like her all that much. Victoria Schwab is a superb storyteller, blending well-crafted characters with a perfectly paced plot.The absolute stand out feature of this novel is the sheer richness and wealth of historical and social detail, without it disrupting the natural flow of the plot itself, and with a real sense of keeping the reader engaged with this extra level of interest. I really do think that this is a “it’s me, not you” scenario, so I’m really confident that other people will like it more!