The Library After Dark A Novel — Content Guide for Parents
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- ViolenceCentral
- Scary contentCentral
- ProfanityBrief
- Gender & orientationSupporting
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- Race & culture
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PRESENTContains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.
About this book
Not all fairytales were meant for children.
Aria Stokes is finally feeling settled—she lives in a tiny New York apartment, works as a bookseller at a local shop, and has even taken a leap of faith in love by indulging her attraction to bookstore regular Jasper. And he seems to already know her so well.
As a Valentine’s Day surprise, Jasper gets the two of them tickets to an exclusive, after-dark tour of the Daedalus Library—the grandiose establishment famed for its immersive genre-based reading rooms and, more notoriously, its rumored hauntings. While Aria normally loves all things ghastly, this place holds more dark secrets than she’d prefer Jasper to know. Like that the last time she was here, she left a body behind.
But when the automatic-door entry malfunctions and Aria, Jasper, and the five other people in their tour group become trapped in the library, they are forced to venture through the storied rooms and hidden passageways of the Daedalus in search of escape . . . and Aria quite literally has nowhere to hide from the shadows of her past. Then the group learns there’s a murderer in their midst.
Now, as she tries to break out of the library’s intricate reading rooms, Aria has to decide who she can trust—and what secrets are best kept buried—if she wants to make it out alive.
Frequently asked questions
Is The Library After Dark A Novel appropriate for a 7-year-old?
A killer stalks the trapped tour group, and group members are murdered one by one in gruesome ways, including with a guillotine. The story is a gothic horror-tinged thriller set in a haunted library, with gore, a killer, and a trapped group.
Does The Library After Dark A Novel have violence?
Found (Central): A killer stalks the trapped tour group, and group members are murdered one by one in gruesome ways, including with a guillotine.
Does The Library After Dark A Novel have scary content?
Found (Central): The story is a gothic horror-tinged thriller set in a haunted library, with gore, a killer, and a trapped group.
Does The Library After Dark A Novel have religion?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Library After Dark A Novel have race & culture?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Library After Dark A Novel have profanity?
Found (Brief): A reader reports "Christ" used in vain eight times and rates the language as moderate.
Does The Library After Dark A Novel have climate?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Library After Dark A Novel have sexual content?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Library After Dark A Novel have gender roles?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does The Library After Dark A Novel have gender & orientation?
Found (Supporting): The main character, Aria, is described as having once loved a woman, Evangeline, and this relationship is part of the past she must face.
