Happy Sunday bookworms and welcome to my review of The Grimoire of Grave Fates created by Hanna Alfa and Margaret Owen. Thank you to Penguin Random House for sending me an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. This book is currently available in stores. content warnings
Racism, murder, ableism, death The Grimoire of Grave Fates is a short story collection that takes place in a magical boarding school. After the school's least favourite professor is found murdered, everyone is a suspect. Each of the 18 short stories follows the perspective of a different student who is trying to solve the case.
I love boarding school settings and anything to do with magic schools so I had high hopes going into this one! The idea of following individual students each trying to solve a murder was intriguing. Unfortunately, since there were 18 individual short stories it was hard to keep track of all of the storylines and perspectives, especially since some characters make appearances in other stories. I think I would have enjoyed this book more if there were only 7 or 8 stories so that I could become more invested in each perspective. Due to the wide range of characters, there were also a variety of magical abilities and rules that needed to be explained in each chapter which caused the story to feel slow at times. However, I enjoyed the school setting and thought that it was really interesting that the school constantly changed locations. Overall I loved the concept but would have enjoyed fewer characters to help the flow of the book. I gave this book 3/5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️. That's all for my review of The Grimoire of Grave Fates created by Hanna Alfa and Margaret Owen. I hope you enjoyed it! If you could curate your own dream short story anthology, what would the theme be? Let me know in the comments below!
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