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A Drop of Night
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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Modern-day teenagers meet a palace of terrors locked up since the French Revolution in this surprising and haunting thriller from Stefan Bachmann, the internationally bestselling author of The Peculiar and The Whatnot. A Drop of Night will thrill fans of Neal Shusterman and Jessica Khoury.Seventeen-year-old Anouk has finally caught the break shes been looking forshes been chosen to participate in an exclusive program that includes an all-expense-paid trip to France and a chance to explore the hidden underground Palais des Papillons, or Palace of Butterflies. Along with four other gifted teenagers, Anouk will be one of the first people to set foot in the palace in more than two hundred years. Bachmanns masterful scene-building alternates between Anouks flight through the palace and the struggles of Aurelie, who escaped the French Revolution by fleeing into the Palais des Papillons in 1792.
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Jari-chan
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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Mehso-so

The last few pages were a So-So, the rest is a Pan. Only read it if you're a true fan. This book is all over the place, the MC is a brat 3/4 through the story and the side characters I could only tell apart by name. The setting would've been nice, but I couldn't follow anything that was going on. Too many open questions throughout the plot. The ending was good, though.

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TheAromaofBooks Sounds aggravating 😂 9mo
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Jari-chan
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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Here's my #BookSpinBingo card with my #BookSpin being A Dropf Of Night by Stefan Bachmann and my #DoubleSpin being a Warhammer 40K short stories collection called No Good Men.

Funny enough this one is also being my next book for #BookishMonopoly 😄 I just hit the same category. Not bad, actually.

@TheAromaofBooks @AkashaVampie

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 9mo
AkashaVampie Awesome... love how that worked out! Good Luck hun. 9mo
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DarkMina
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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I am posting a book every day from my TBR collection. 📚

Day 79

#bookstoread #tbrpile #tbrmountain

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LibrarianRyan
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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I have much #sorrow that this book was not as good at it could have been. #septembowie

JazzFeathers Pity. With such a cover, l'd expect wonders 7y
LibrarianRyan @JazzFeathers it had one moment of greatness. And then the rest was plot holes and redundancies. 7y
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KimmyM
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
Mehso-so

I really wanted to love this. I loved the premise, and the story got to the excitement very quickly. Despite the action and how bonkers the book was, it was also kind of boring at times.

mcipher Just bad writing? 7y
KimmyM @mcipher I hesitate to say bad writing, but maybe a disconnect between what I expected/wanted the book to be and what it was. 7y
mcipher That's always tough. 7y
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AngisBuecherkiste
Palast der Finsternis | Stefan Bachmann
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Neuzugang

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LibrarianRyan
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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Mehso-so

2 1/2⭐️The premise of this story is amazing, and it could have gone so far, but it failed miserably. I would not classify it as horror, or thriller, or fantasy. I would classify it as useless. Admittedly, it was interesting enough to keep me reading, but it wrapped up way too quickly, and way too easily. This book feels a like the movies Ghost Ship, 13 Ghosts, and the Cave all rolled into one. Full review on Goodreads
#LitsyAtoZ #beatthebacklist

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LibrarianRyan
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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There is no way I'm getting a book read today. I'll input reviews later, but until then here are my July stats. Not a bad month at all.

rubyslippersreads Love your graphic! 7y
LibrarianRyan @rubyslippersreads pre done graphic in Canva. I just changed the colors. Thank you though. 7y
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LibrarianRyan
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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This makes 3 #litsyAtoZ titles this month. I might actually catch up. I have to ponder on the before I write my review. Either a 2 or a 3, but I need sleep and to be clear headed to make up my mind.

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LibrarianRyan
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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I go outside to read and my neighbor resides to feed me. Mainly because she hates green peppers.

SilversReviews Love the photo and the peppers. 7y
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LibrarianRyan
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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That is kind of what this book is.

josie281 Like a low-budget sci-fi? 7y
LibrarianRyan @josie281 more like low budget horror. But I'm enjoying it. Very much reminds me of Crimson Peak (although we know that wasn't low budget). Maybe a little like Ghost Ship. 7y
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LibrarianRyan
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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Hummmmm. A bad Hogwarts. I thought that was regular school.?

Smangela Hahaha! 7y
Linear .... like going to school in the castle from castlevania? 7y
LibrarianRyan @Linear yeah!!!🤓😮 7y
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LibrarianRyan
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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Don't you love it when you open a new thick book and find out it has thick pages, nicely spaced lines, and large gutters. Means it's not as long as you thought. Though something that is bad.

Lcsmcat And makes it easier to read! 7y
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lauras.enchanted.library
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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Pickpick

I'm still obsessing over this book, and I finished reading it at 3:30 this morning. Literally couldn't sleep until I finished.

There's so much to be said and I hate giving away spoilers so let me just say: the mystery kept getting harder and harder to guess at. Things that i would think are one way are actually not. It kept me guessing up until the reveal.

I loved it so much and more. 5⭐️

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lauras.enchanted.library
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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She's so cynical. I love it.

The mystery is just giving me anxiety. I NEED to know what happened/is happening. I can't stop reading it!

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LibrarianRyan
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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So what appears to be the best choice of a color for a book cover. In my collection if it's not black, it's #bluebooks . #17rainbowreads (btw the upside down book is blue but it also has a giant green ogre on the front -Good Ogre by Clark.)

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Campbrarian
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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"When we are poor we wish to be rich, when we are rich we wish to be loved, when we are loved we wish for freedom from pain and endless life and unchanging happiness".

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Campbrarian
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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Pickpick

Overall I am not really sure what to make of this book. It wasn't what I expected after reading the blurb. Anouk is a teenager chosen to excavate a subterranean palace dating back to the French Revolution. I did get confused by all of the underground rooms but found it suspenseful enough that I flew through the pages. I would not include this in an elementary library collection.

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HiddenGemBooks
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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Anouk has finally caught the break she‘s been looking for—she's been selected out of hundreds to fly to France and help with the excavation of a vast, underground palace buried a hundred feet below the suburbs of Paris. Built in the 1780's to hide an aristocratic family and a mad duke during the French Revolution. Anouk, along with several other gifted teenagers, will be the first to set foot in it in over two centuries.

#TBR 😱📚

Bookworm54 You are a never ending fountain of knowledge when it comes to new and exciting sounding reads! ❤️ 8y
Gissy I read it! It was ok but scenes were not developed and you can get confused because they don't make any sense. In my club reading we had the opportunity to speak with the author. 8y
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cavecibum
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann
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Panpan

This would probably make an enjoyably bad horror movie with a few tweaks, but it's just poorly written and mildly confusing as a book.

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cavecibum
A Drop of Night | Stefan Bachmann

"Once people see you cry, it's like they own part of you. It's like you ripped a hole in yourself, and they saw through whatever armor you had on, got a good long view of all the screaming alien goop underneath."

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