His father had been the kind of man who just – had these children and then disappeared, not even giving them his name, not even marrying Momma.
This 6th book in the Tillerman series wasn’t my favorite, but Voigt does a marvelous job filling out the characters of Sammy and James as they go in search of the father they’ve only really known by his absence. Years have passed now since we first met these boys and the series has set them largely to the side in recent books, but even still, along this way, we have been learning about their family and the context in which they live. As Voigt picks them back up in this story, she shows her skill as a writer – the boys we get to know in this story are consistent with the characters we’ve come to know them as, and there is a remarkable coherence as their search for father unfolds greater self-awareness in each of them.
The Midnight Library – Matt Haig