City of Ghosts: 1

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Clever entertaining and imaginative with superb characters, as our hero a former violinist with a seemingly glittering future ahead of him, is now a state militia detective tasked with investigating the gruesome find of five dead bodies.

While Victoria Schwab is a beloved author, this is actually the first book I have ever read from her. That is, until her parents, who are ghost hunters, by the way, get a once in a lifetime opportunity to film a show about the most haunted spots in Scotland.City of Ghosts is a middle grade novel that has such a perfect spooky atmosphere, and it’s set around scary places in Scotland. Surprisingly, Nikitin becomes his ally in pursuing rapists and murderers among Stalin's top ranking leaders.

In my opinion it still has her beautiful writing and way of throwing you in the story and really sucking you in too it and overall i found the story fun too read and quick but it doesnt have the darkness or twistst and heavy things and depht that her adult books have. Sometimes you move between the worlds, you were dead, at least on the bridge of death, but you were saved. 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.

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! I used to stay up all night in my room scared out of my mind watching it, so when I read the synopsis of this I knew I needed to read it. If you are an adult reading this don’t expect it to be the next A darker shade of magic because it is not and nor it is supposed to be so.

Sure, it's fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower, but there's true ghostly danger lurking beneath Paris, in the creepy underground Catacombs. Like, Cassidy does have a cat named Grim, but they aren’t brought up very much, and when they are it is in their carrier. Bolstered by the skilful weaving in of history and politics, I found this an enthralling and clever thriller, steeped in the feel of the period and the sinister atmosphere of fear and darkness in a totalitarian state.Mary King's Close" sounded too fascinating to pass on it and since I’m a little history geek Edinburgh sounds like the perfect place to be. So, all in all I’m really happy I’ve read this story and can’t wait to read the next books in this series.

I really enjoyed the action-packed goodness of Cassidy and Jacob running through the living realm and the veil in a race against time to try and beat the Red Raven, I can't even tell you how fast I was flipping through the pages. I loved the idea of this semi-tangible thing that Cassidy could cast aside to enter the world of spirits, and you can tell that the entire dynamic of the Veil is one that Victoria has thought out in complexity, from the consistent rules it has. Thriller, deren Handlung in der Nachkriegszeit spielen, haben meiner Meinung nach schon was Einzigartiges an sich. This debut novel is gripping, becomes a real page turner and is orchestrated to a satisfyingly blood curdling finale. It will take centuries to wipe away such horror from the memories of people alive today who lived through the period, even longer for Russia to recover its soul.When you start to read a book by Victoria Schwab it takes time to get into the story, but when you’re in, when you’re really in, then it’s over.