An extravagant, beautifully imagined fantasy about a universe that is both familiar and unfamiliar. . . . Hawkins makes nary a misstep in this award-worthy effort of imagination.You won’t be able to put it down.” — Booklist(starred review) Now, Father is missing—perhaps even dead—and the Library that holds his secrets stands unguarded. And with it, control over all of creation. That’s the risk in working to be a dangerous person,” she said. “There’s always the chance you’ll run into someone who’s better at it than you.” A first-rate novel… a sprawling, epic contemporary fantasy about cruelty and the end of the world, compulsively readable, with the deep, resonant magic of a world where reality is up for grabs. Unputdownable. We are an international group who share an interest in reading all genres of books. We focus on four main areas:

Buddy Reads. Do you want to read a book and discuss it with others? Our Buddy Read section is open for this purpose. If someone had described this book in detail to me, I would have sworn I would hate it. Instead, I absolutely, 100-percent loved this book! The horrors and gore were at times overwhelming, and yet.... and yet I could not stop reading this! Scott Hawkins, how the hell has he not published more novels??? This man is a genius! He is Stephen King on LSD. This book is incredibly imaginative, the characters so real even as they are fantastical. The world building, the character building, abso-freaking-lutely everything about this book is AMAZING! Michael tried and tried, but the Deep One wouldn’t go for it. My brother tried to explain the situation, but Father wouldn’t listen." PS—I first heard of this book from this article: Just Trust Me: In Praise Of Strange Books — piquing my interest with: "Give me something dark … Give me a book that sunk its teeth into you. One that changed you, left you a little different by the time you were done.” In the years since then, Carolyn hasn’t had a chance to get out much. Instead, she and her adopted siblings have been raised according to Father’s ancient customs. They’ve studied the books in his Library and learned some of the secrets of his power. And sometimes, they’ve wondered if their cruel tutor might secretly be God.Good response in return of this issue with solid arguments and describing everything on the topic of A discussion of The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins, our /r/books bookclub selection for January.

Father" taught each of his librarians, but they were only allowed to study out of the books in their fields. Or they suffered the consequences. No real thing can be so perfect as memory, and she will need a perfect thing if she is to survive. She will warm herself on the memory of you when there is nothing else, and be sustained.” In the beginning I had a hard time getting into since every 1-2 chapters you start following a different story without really knowing how they are linked. Eventually it all starts to make sense and I just couldn't put it down! Starred Review. [This] novel is compulsively readable. Don't start it if you have something else to do because you won't be able to put it down. Consider yourself warned.Once upon a time, there was a dude - Scott Hawkins. He lived quietly in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and his dogs. And he was working on projects and books for Unix/Linux.