![]() ![]() If I even attempted to explain the plot of this book, I’d sound like I’m just grabbing random words in no order, but I’ll try.Ĭarolyn is one of twelve orphans adopted by Father. you know what The Library at Mount Char reminded me of? It reminded me of Gideon the Ninth, but with a lot fewer swords and a lot more guns. The prose, the dark humor, the characters who struggle to relate to each other but must work together, the forbidden knowledge, people with god-like powers, the long game, the author forcing the reader to be patient, the way everything (yep, that too!) is explained at the end. “On the morning after she murdered Detective Miner for the second time, Carolyn came awake on the floor of Mrs. You’re a really big kitty, sweetie, aren’t you. I spent the first hundred pages thinking things like: This book is absolutely and gloriously bat shit insane. If you’re the kind of reader who wants a prologue, wants a ton of history before the main plot gets going, if you want to know the character’s histories. ![]() I came across Scott Hawkins’ 2015 debut novel The Library at Mount Char in some book listicle about “books that don’t make any sense until you’re half way through”, and yep, this book is exactly that. ![]() And one of them has a murderous intent to kill her Father. ![]() Thirty years later, the god’s children are all grown up. Sometime in the late 70s, the American military tried to kill a god. ![]()
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