It’s through her investigation that Ropa discovers her best friend Jomo has begun to work at a private and prestigious Library.
But as mysterious occurrences around town begin to point to a larger child abduction operation, Ropa quickly realizes that if she doesn’t help the children, no one will. When a deceased mother begs for Ropa to find her missing son, Ropa is more than hesitant to take on a non-paying job. But, Ropa is also incredibly smart and loyal and does all she can to protect her grandmother and sister from the stress.
Needless to say, Ropa has a lot of responsibility and it is really, really starting to wear on her. It’s also up to Ropa to run all errands, maintain the caravan, and protect her family. With her grandmother’s ailing eyesight and her sister still being quite young, it’s up to Ropa to make enough money relaying messages from the dead to the families they left behind. With all that it has going on, it would be easy to stray off course, but Huchu keeps the story tight and the characters never stray from the world’s rules that have been crafted for them.Īfter losing their home, Ropa, along with her sister and grandmother move into their caravan and are barely making ends meet. Set in a complex and strange near future, The Library of the Dead, is a genre-bending mix of fantasy, post-apocalyptic dystopia and mystery. Add in “the dead” and I’m instantly intrigued. And although underground Edinburgh hides a wealth of dark secrets, she also discovers an occult library, a magical mentor, and some unexpected allies.I am a sucker for any book with “library” in the title. Ropa will dance with death as she calls on Zimbabwean magic and Scottish pragmatism to hunt down clues. 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 strength. A girl’s gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough. Now she speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to those they left behind. Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker-and they sure do love to talk. 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. The Sixth Sense meets Stranger Things in T.
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