I enjoyed this a lot! It's set in the 1920s, about a 17-year-old girl named Evie from a small town in Ohio who goes to live with her uncle in New York City. Her uncle runs a museum of occult-related stuff and is brought in by police to consult on a series of murders with occult symbols found on the bodies. Evie and several other young people in New York turn out to have various powers. Like, Evie can get flashes of others' memories while holding objects that belong to them and a guy named Memphis can heal people and he's been having the same dream as a Ziegfeld girl named Theta. All of these people are starting to get involved in each others' lives while Evie and her Uncle are trying to stop this killer. I love the historical setting and the way it incorporates so many different little communities in New York (like the Harlem Renaissance music scene and Irish street gangs and fancy speakeasies).
This book is a complete and interesting story in itself, but it's also clearly a set up for a larger series that I'm really looking forward to reading. Google tells me the next book is due in April of next year and I can't wait.
This book is a complete and interesting story in itself, but it's also clearly a set up for a larger series that I'm really looking forward to reading. Google tells me the next book is due in April of next year and I can't wait.
Strange book and way too long. The first 100 pages and the last 100 pages were good but you could lose the 300 plus in between. The 1920's setting is very interesting and I think Libba Bray captures it well. I didn't like any of the character other than maybe Jericho. Plot was dragged out. Ending was good though and makes me curous where this serious is heading.
