City of Ghosts: 1

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It's not everyday you get to read one of your most anticipated reads for the rest of 2018 before it comes out, so I am eternally grateful to Scholastic Press for the opportunity. Overtly historical, it also encompasses a degree of Indian folktale, a ghostly guardian angel watching over one of the teenage protagonists. 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. As Cass travels the world with her TV host parents, they visit some of the world’s most haunted places - Edinburgh, Paris, New Orleans - and Cass is immersed in the City of Ghosts and all its dangers. While I do consider City of Ghosts spooky enough to be considered horror, I think it’s going to be important for readers to keep in mind that this book is middle grade horror—it’s written for children, not adults.

I have read fantastic young adult and adult fiction works from Victoria Schwab and I have to say, she’s done it again with this new excursion in her writing! Das zu lesen war für mich teilweise sehr erschütternd aber interessant, da diese Zeit ich besonders aus den Erzählungen meiner Großeltern kenne. 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.

Without spoiling anything, there’s a conversation that occurs at the end of City of Ghosts that has me simultaneously eager and incredibly nervous to continue the series, because, well… let’s just say that it feels like some very uncomfortable foreshadowing, and I don’t think even the kiddos are safe in Victoria’s worlds. 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.

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. I did like Rossel and there was lots of promise if the next book is more plot based than I would most probably read more. Now serving as a Lieutenant, he is investigating a gruesome, macabre scene of five bodies laid on train tracks running parallel to each other.Thriller, deren Handlung in der Nachkriegszeit spielen, haben meiner Meinung nach schon was Einzigartiges an sich. The strength of Rai’s text lies in its versatility, as it can be read as enjoyably for its historical content, cultural insights or its supernatural interventions. After school he did three a-levels at a local sixth form - none of which was English Literature, which he now regrets. Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead.

The setting of an icy Leningrad in late 1951 is the best feature of a good thriller which goes a bit over the top towards the conclusion. 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.

Letztes Jahr las ich den Thriller „Black Sun“ aus dem Bastei Lübbe Verlag, der identisch wie dieser Thriller in Russland in der Nachkriegszeit spielt. A squabble between a sicko music conductor, a Russian cop, and the Stalinist state system set just after the end of WW2 in Leningrad. Of course unlike her other works this has a lot of light hearted moments and it's a pretty easy book to fly through as it doesn't have those secret and hidden hard truths that her older books tend to have. Sometimes you move between the worlds, you were dead, at least on the bridge of death, but you were saved. All said this is still a decent thriller with good writing and strong characters who could easily carry a series.