Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
This is the perfect book to read this time of year. It's a little bit creepy, has some supernatural "stuff" in it and has a good monster. This is also one of the best pieces of historical fiction I've read in a long time. The descriptions of the 1920's were spot on - from the slang to the music to the architecture and mood of the time period, it was fantastic. There were a few places where the story dragged a little bit - that's why 4 stars instead of 5 - but all in all it was very enjoyable. I look forward to seeing where the series leads.
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