If you enjoy the intrigue of a murder mystery coupled with the historical horrors of hierarchical Stalinist Russia, you will find this book thought provoking and blood curdling with little respite even as the hero reveals his introspective longing for lost love. A squabble between a sicko music conductor, a Russian cop, and the Stalinist state system set just after the end of WW2 in Leningrad. Fazit: Wer also Lust auf eine Reise in das kalte Russland in der Nachkriegszeit hat und dabei einen spannenden sowie sehr komplexen Plot verfolgen möchte, sollte sich mit diesem Thriller vertraut machen. 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. I loved getting to know different places around the city and it definitely added to the atmosphere of the book.

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. If my life were as aesthetic as Victoria's covers, I would have had an editorial in VOGUE years ago. His investigation sees him delve back into his past as a young musician who was denounced, arrested and tortured. When Cass's parents start hosting a TV show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to Edinburgh, Scotland. Among 300 men sent to the front as a shield for fully trained militia, only a handful survived, Rossel being one of them.Auch wenn ich selbst mit slawischen Namen vertraut bin, fand ich es sehr schwierig, mir die ganzen Namen der Figuren – abseits von Rossel – zu merken. Because even though there didn’t happen a lot in this rather short fantasy book the writing style still kept me going and caused me to read on. Zudem gelingt es dem Autorenduo schon am Anfang des Thrillers eine sehr kalte, teils düstere Atmosphäre zu kreieren. It’s about a girl named Cass who can pass between the worlds of the living and the dead, and can see ghosts.

He went on to graduate from Southbank University in London with a 2:1 in politics and since then he has had various jobs in retail, cinema, and telesales and has kept a keen, almost obsessive, interest in current affairs. Revol Rossel - once a virtuoso violinist with a glittering future - is now a humble state militia cop, forced to investigate desperate crimes in this desperate era.ETA: Queen Schwab has now joined the small, elite group of authors who has hit bestsellers lists in Adult, YA, and Children's releases, and I can't think of anyone who deserves it more. Despite me being annoyed by all the Harry Potter references (they were literally everywhere, please stop), this was a solid middle grade book.

NYT bestselling author Victoria Schwab delivers a thrillingly spooky and action-packed tale of hauntings, history, mystery, and the bond between friends (even if that friend is a ghost . And even me, a Gryffindor who fits that demographic, thought the Harry Potter references were too much.

City of Ghosts ☪☾✩ Iss the first book in queen Ve Schwab her middle grade urban fantasy triology about a girl , Cassidy that can see ghosts and who also happends too have this sarcastic ghost friend as a side kick. The book is incredibly rich in characterisation from Rossel’s militia cohorts, to figures from his past (in some of the most touching scenes I have read for some while), and those that come under his investigative scrutiny too. I have read quite a few books set in this particular period, and can honestly say that Creed does bring something new and fresh to this genre of crime fiction. Despite the bizarre nature of her everyday life, Cassidy is such a level-headed, calm child, and I loved that about her character.

We don’t know how he died and why, the only thing we know is that he saved Cassidy’s life and is now bond with her. City of Ghosts is a middle grade novel that has such a perfect spooky atmosphere, and it’s set around scary places in Scotland.We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child. With a flurry of flashbacks and glimpses into his past as an aspiring and talented musician, we again bear witness to the power of the state to suppress its citizens, crushing their hopes and dreams and wreaking violence and fear amongst them. As the characters are revealed, you are drawn in to a world full of desperate barely surviving survivors of war, atrocities, betrayals and hopelessness and that are made all the more realistic in the descriptions of their frailties, flaws, dreams and memories of happier times. I like historical fiction and this cold war stuff but the reason for the killings was as I said silly. And while in Scotland, Cassidy meets a ghost that is more evil than any of the others she’s ever encountered before.