Ari Berk

As the only living resident of Arvale Manor, the ancestral home of the Umber family, Silas must seek to understand the past and put an ancient wrong to right as he discovers that even a house of ghosts can be haunted by its past.

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Ken Yuen

So coming off the first book, my main interest was in Silas and Bea's relationship. So I can't say I loved this side diversion to Arvale. Arvale was a lot of dream space and dream logic. I was never totally clear why Silas was here.

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Jonas and Maud are pretty terrible characters. Jonas' comes off as a manipulative jerk with inexplicable motivations who just screws off halfway through the story. Maud is more sympathetic, but instead of Silas helping her, she's basically just told to go away at the end?

Lars is super sympathetic. I specifically didn't check to see if he was Bea's guy, but I thought he was really likable. When his relationship to Bea is revealed, I sort of yelled out "I knew this was that guy". Sad that he turned to ash at the end
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