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The Library at Mount Char

Scott Hawkins

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Jan 15, 2016 Cora rated it it was amazing

Shelves: lost-in-fire, audio-book-at-library, fantasy, horror, gods, family, apocalypse, available-at-library, brothers-and-sisters, dark-fantasy

Agodlike being with unlimited powers decides to adopt twelve orphans and train each one in one of twelve aspects of his powers. The children live in a giant library and study their catalogs (but their catalogs only). It is not an easy life because Father expects a lot out of them and punishes those who disappoint him. One day, Father disappears and a mysterious force prevents the children, now young adults, from returning to the library. They must find out what happened to Father and find a way ...more

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May 21, 2018 John Warner rated it really liked it

Shelves: horror

The Library at Mount Char has been surrounded by some mystical barrier preventing entrance into the library. The "Father" of the twelve librarians, orphans at the same time and all adopted by the all-powerful, ancient Father is missing. The librarians are unable to enter the library to begin their search for Father. Each uses their knowledge obtained from their respective catalog of books to search for Father but current searches have been fruitless.

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