The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler is set on Long Island Sound, in an old house sitting precariously on a cliff side ready to fall into the sea. Here lives Simon, a librarian, who comes from a family of mermaids, and tarot readers and carnival performers. He receives a very old, mysterious book that belonged to his Grandmother and begins a quest to uncover the curse that seems to be haunting his family.
Set in the past and the present, the book is full of magic and magical characters, but also sadness and darkness. It isn't the best book of this sort I've read, I enjoyed The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern much more, but it is well written and I was pulled in and enthralled by the story. A good read.
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