Shelly's Book Blog

The Night Tourist, by Katherine Marsh, is about a 14-year-old boy named Jack Perdu who unwittingly follows a girl named Euri to the New York underworld. In this book, people who died in New York are sent to this underworld and allowed above ground at night. Jack's mother died several years before, so he tries to find her among the thousands of ghosts who inhabit this world. This book is like the Percy Jackson series in that it encorporates Greek mythology into the story. For example, "Euri" is short for "Eurydice." Orpheus, Eurydice's husband, visits the underworld after her death and tries to bring her back to the land of the living. A sequel to this book, The Twilight Prisoner, is due out in April, and I am looking forward to reading more about these characters.