Th story was great, loved that Ropa was thrust into this world of the library by accident and it seems like she has more mysteries coming her way at the end of this. The narration was a choice, I'm not sure if it was on purpose to depict something else about Ropa but there were some things that I recognised about myself in her so hopefully it'll be addressed later on. I very much enjoyed the dark academia vibes in this and the Zimbabwean magics discussed. I'm not Scottish myself so I think all the slang flew over my head as quirks of speech. The found family aspect was something I liked and the reference to the catastrophe that happened when she was growing up seemed like something not too far away for us now, it was vagueness about how it happened didn't interfere with the world building because the author fleshed out the current realities really well. I will be listening to rest of the series for sure!