I picked this book because it was about sisters and sisters, Esther and Joanna are a big part of the book. It’s really about two different families that share a connection. Magic exist and it exists in books. There are scribes who blood is used as ink to write spells and there are those who can hear the magic. Esther is a scribe and Joanna can hear the magic. At the beginning of the book Esther has left home and moves every year in fear that whoever killed her mother will find her. Joanna is still at home, protecting the books her father has collected over the years. Things start to change when Esther decides not to move on and they thrown into a mystery of their past. Enter Nicholas, the scribe of the Library. His uncles partner, Maram sends him and his bodyguard, Collins to go find the sisters and unravel the mystery. They find that they are all connected and those that they trusted have not always had their best interests at heart. I’ll admit at first, I wasn’t really into it. It was a slow burn but once I got going, it was really good. All the characters were fleshed out and motivations on how they got to where they were and wanted to move forward. It was fun read. I ended up really enjoying it.