This book was such a wild ride! The tone is kind of jovial throughout, even as people get burned alive, bombed, eat the meat of their best friends, and bring people back from the dead. It's also kind of genre-less, it says "fantasy" on the front cover of my library copy, but the main character assures us that "magic doesn't exist." Everything gets explained away as "mathematical constructs" and something from either the very distant past or future. This story follows multiple curious and loveable characters, but it opens on Carolyn. Alongside 11 other children, Carolyn was taken in when her family was in a huge accident. They were taken in by Father who taught them how to bend reality in different ways; one child learned to revive people from the dead, another learned the intricacies of war, another still could heal anything. Carolyn's education was in languages and she knows more of them than she could possibly count. Luckily, one of them is English because she needs help from an American to solve the mystery at the centre of this story: they're Father is missing and they can't find him anywhere. Who did it and how can they get him back?

By the end of the book we've toured through horror, dystopian, mystery, and a little bit of a love story. All of the from the safety of the library halls. I highly recommend! It takes a meandering journey to get there (the storytelling is super interesting), but eventually everything wraps up nicely!