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patchy_at_best's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
jahnfar's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
bookishexpat's review against another edition
Slow, and not in a good way. The chapters being written by different authors mess with the flow and make it feel fractured. There are also too many POVs and too much details about lots of different magic systems, and not enough how all the characters and magics fit into the academic setting.
All the detail and different personalities make it feel like you’re starting over each chapter, which makes it ultimately tedious to get through. And unfortunately overall it’s just not interesting enough to stick with.
All the detail and different personalities make it feel like you’re starting over each chapter, which makes it ultimately tedious to get through. And unfortunately overall it’s just not interesting enough to stick with.
vtlism's review
I mostly slept to this. I don't like books made of 60 tiny chapters by 60 different authors and 60 different narrators, it's way too much work for little payoff for my attention span. Laborious, for what? Not for me.
raina_massey's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
dragongirl271's review against another edition
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
“No one has ever interrupted her explanation and finished her deduction. She had to convince Delfina to be her detective partner. Or maybe marry her.”
This may be one of the most fun and creative concepts for a fiction anthology book that I've ever come across. Alkaf and Owen brought together 18 different authors to collectively tell a murder mystery, but also still kept it in a short story format. I loved listening to this book. I would 100% read again. I want a separate book that's just all about the making of this one. Give me all the behind the scenes information about this collaboration.
The Grimoire of Grave Fates is a YA fantasy murder mystery that takes place at a traveling magical school. A professor that many hated has died and 18 students, working both together and separately, decide to look into what happened. Each chapter follows a different student during a different hour following the murder and it's all so creatively done.
“...three steps to solving a murder: step 1- break into murder victims home. Step 2- ??? Step 3- solve climate change”
I love the humor. I love how well-developed each character is. I really love all the different types of magic each author designs (someone sign me up for the embroidery magic courses). This is just a gem of a book.
3rd-person POV following a different student each chapter.
Mixed pacing across the chapters.
This may be one of the most fun and creative concepts for a fiction anthology book that I've ever come across. Alkaf and Owen brought together 18 different authors to collectively tell a murder mystery, but also still kept it in a short story format. I loved listening to this book. I would 100% read again. I want a separate book that's just all about the making of this one. Give me all the behind the scenes information about this collaboration.
The Grimoire of Grave Fates is a YA fantasy murder mystery that takes place at a traveling magical school. A professor that many hated has died and 18 students, working both together and separately, decide to look into what happened. Each chapter follows a different student during a different hour following the murder and it's all so creatively done.
“...three steps to solving a murder: step 1- break into murder victims home. Step 2- ??? Step 3- solve climate change”
I love the humor. I love how well-developed each character is. I really love all the different types of magic each author designs (someone sign me up for the embroidery magic courses). This is just a gem of a book.
3rd-person POV following a different student each chapter.
Mixed pacing across the chapters.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Kidnapping, Transphobia, Ableism, Racism, Murder, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Bullying, Homophobia, Classism, and Colonisation
tspice24's review
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
akacya's review
4.0
2024 reads: 72/250
this anthology follows eighteen students as they attempt to piece together who killed a professor at their school, galileo academy. i heard somewhere that this is better physically/digitally, and i’m grateful for the heads-up because i’m not sure how this would have translated to audio with all the visual elements. trying to figure everything out with all the fragments of the story we got was pretty fun. i recommend to anyone looking for a unique anthology/mystery.
aname's review
No real narrative and hard to follow the plot in an engaging manner