“Some people say this world of ours is just a tumbling stone. No soul, no guide, no heart within, mere atoms all alone. But I believe there’s more to things than simply meets the eyes. There’s good and bad—and so I say: Make sure the good survives.”
I first read this book years ago, but recently was cleaning and reorganizing my bookshelf, saw it, got inspired, and decided to revisit it.
Elizabeth Somers, an orphan, got shipped of to Winterhouse Hotel buy her aunt and uncle who received a mysterious note with a free ticket for Elizabeth at the Winterhouse Hotel, and a free trip for them somewhere else. When she gets there, she is blown away by the hotel as a whole, but especially its library, where she located a mysterious book full of puzzles that unlocks a mystery involving Norbridge Falls, the proprietor of the hotel, and his family. When she looks into this mystery and the hotel’s secrets, Elizabeth starts to realize that she is in some way connected to this mystery and the Falls family.
I remember this book being better before I reread it, but it is still pretty good. The mystery and the puzzles are interesting and quite puzzling, and it’s just a well-written and pretty good book. It’s enjoyable, unexpected, and generally just interesting.
I particularly enjoyed how the chapter titles were all written with one word in the title being part of a word ladder, especially because the word ladders related to the chapter itself. Overall, this was a great book, would recommend, and it was just a nice mystery.