Let me say straight out that you cannot judge this book by the title. There is a library that's accessed through a crypt, but it plays a much smaller role in the book than you'd expect. Instead, this book is about Ropa, a teen girl who has dropped out of school to serve as a messenger for ghosts in an effort to support her family in a post-apocalyptic Cardiff (No idea what caused the apocalypse, honestly, and I'd love to know). Along the way, she learns of children that have gone missing, and against her better judgment, decides to start investigating. Soon she finds herself pulled into the titular library, as well as a house that operates as a magical Venus flytrap and a madcap fight against a drug-dealing golem.
This was fun, and Ropa was a fantastic character, but something about this felt very young-adult to me. That said, I'll happily read more about Ropa and her quirky skills as ghost messenger.
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