The Book of Lost Hours

★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10

391 pages

What’s it about?

Eleven-year-old Lizavet Levy finds herself trapped in time in 1938.  Her father quickly hid her before the Nazi’s could find her, and now she finds herself in a time space library filled with books containing memories.  She seems to share the space with not only memories, but with spies.

What did it make me think about?

We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Should I read it?

This was a fun book to read.  It reminded me of Matt Haig’s “The Midnight Library”, so if you liked that novel then pick this one up as well. I thought the book picked up steam in the second half, so bide your time in the beginning.  There are some twists and turns and a little romance to keep it moving forward.  This one is just a fun fantasy book.

A passage I marked

“ ‘This is what it means to be forgotten,’ Azrael explained when she’d first come to him in distress over one of those lost memories. ‘The version of the past we remember is often very different from what actually occurred.  Events, histories, entire communities…it’s all been written and unwritten dozens of times over.  Nobody knows how much has been lost.  Nobody knows how much of what remains is the truth.’ “