Reading the back cover review snippets alerted me to The Rook being a “genre-bender”. (Ha, this was originally auto-corrected to “gender-bender”, which, I would argue, is also true of this novel.) The Rook is likened to Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ghostbusters, as well as the Jason Bourne trilogy, War of the Worlds, etc.
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