City of Ghosts: 1

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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. i love the worldbuilding and the way Ve schwab created the magic in this book and the setting the charracters end up in , in Scotland.

Despite the bizarre nature of her everyday life, Cassidy is such a level-headed, calm child, and I loved that about her character. Even though I absolutely adore Victoria Schwab, her writing style and the whole ghost story, I had some problems with the whole pacing in this book. So we pile into the cab, two parents, one kid, a ghost, and a ticked-off cat, and we head for the airport. Once there was a woman, a beauty with fair skin and black hair, and a little boy who loved to wander. Militia officer, Revol Rossel, a violinist whose fingers were crippled by a wartime MGB interrogation, is a major part of a team investigating 5 bodies, with ID removed, found on a railway siding.Cassidy can enter the '' veil '' a place where souls of people who died stay if they havent moved on yet. Those two were a lot of fun to read about and I can’t help but wonder what will happen to them in the next instalment. I alwasy make stupid excuses to re-read my favourite books, but here I actually had one that could be counted as a real reason to re-read a book, not just because I loved it.

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.And when her parents host a TV show about the wolrd most haunted places, they end up going to Edinburgh. Started like Gorky Park then when you realise the plot and the reason I thought it all a bit far fetched and silly.

The first couple references were super adorable and I was hyped to see it, but then it just became a little too redundant for me. Cassidy’s parents were pretty kick-ass though and I loved the fact that they spoke about ghosts and were experts but didn’t even have a clue that their own daughter could actually see and talk to them. Don't be deterred by the wooden beginning, which for some could be a deal breaker in those first pages of deciding whether the story is worth sticking with, as you're unlikely to be grabbed instantly. Don't get me wrong—I loved this book, but how come ghost books are always about ghosts from the 1800’s or something? At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills.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.