Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Release Date: February 25, 2025
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Source: Publisher
Genre: Young Adult / Dark Fantasy
The New York Times bestselling author of Hotel Magnifique returns with this stunning dark academic fantasy full of deadly magic and dangerous secrets, perfect for fans of Divine Rivals and A Study in Drowning.
Seven years ago, Maeve Abenthy lost everything: her world, her father, even her name. Desperate to escape the stain of her father’s crimes, she lives under a fake name, never staying in one place long enough to put down roots.
Then she receives a mysterious letter with four impossible words: Your father was innocent.
To uncover the truth, she poses as an apprentice for the Otherwhere Post, where she’ll be trained in the art of scriptomancy—the dangerous magic that allows couriers to enchant letters and deliver them to other worlds. But looking into her father’s past draws more attention than she’d planned.
Her secretive, infuriatingly handsome mentor knows she’s lying about her identity, and time is running out to convince him to trust her. Worse, she begins to receive threatening letters, warning her to drop her investigation—or else. For Maeve to unravel the mystery of what happened seven years ago, she may have to forfeit her life.
Seven years ago, Maeve Abenthy lost everything: her world, her father, even her name. Desperate to escape the stain of her father’s crimes, she lives under a fake name, never staying in one place long enough to put down roots.
Then she receives a mysterious letter with four impossible words: Your father was innocent.
To uncover the truth, she poses as an apprentice for the Otherwhere Post, where she’ll be trained in the art of scriptomancy—the dangerous magic that allows couriers to enchant letters and deliver them to other worlds. But looking into her father’s past draws more attention than she’d planned.
Her secretive, infuriatingly handsome mentor knows she’s lying about her identity, and time is running out to convince him to trust her. Worse, she begins to receive threatening letters, warning her to drop her investigation—or else. For Maeve to unravel the mystery of what happened seven years ago, she may have to forfeit her life.
Emily J. Taylor's The Otherwhere Post is a mystery spanning different worlds, filled with dangerous romance, deadly magic, and Edwardian Dark Academia vibes. The story comes to us in Maeve’s third-person perspective. This is an interesting world. A world where the citizens could travel between three worlds (Inverly, Barrow, and Leyland) through doorways until seven years ago. Those doorways were burned, leaving the people in one of the worlds for dead. Now, the other two can only communicate through letters delivered by the Otherwhere Post, people trained in the art of scriptomancy, the magic that allows them to enchant letters and travel between the two worlds.
Seven years ago, Maeve Abenthy lost everything: her world, her father, even her name. Desperate to escape the stain of her father Jonathan Abenthy’s crimes, she lives under a fake name, Isla Craig, never staying in one place long enough to put down roots. She is ready to move on to yet another place when she receives a mysterious letter with four impossible words: Your father was innocent. Jonathan, a powerful scriptomancer capable of enchanting letters, was accused of unleashing Aldervine, a deadly plant with crawling branches that killed many, including Maeve. Although she was saved at the last second by a mysterious man, she witnessed the death of her aunt years ago.
Maeve has had to change her name in order to avoid any comparison to her father. Maeve has been scrimping and saving every penny to leave her latest job and start a new life. On the day she’s ready to walk away from everything, however, Maeve receives an anonymous letter from saying her father was innocent. He didn’t cause the Aldervine to enter Inverly; he wasn’t responsible for the burning of the Written Doors. Maeve’s path crosses with the mysterious courier named Tristan who tells her the only way to trace the sender is by accessing the archives, a privilege only couriers have. To solve the mystery, Maeve decides to infiltrate Otherwhere Post by faking her credentials, references, and stealing another applicant’s identity.
She also encounters Nan, who will become a key secondary character in this story, as well as her roommate. Tristan quickly discovers she’s faking her identity but, instead of exposing her, he’s intrigued and offers to help. To uncover the truth, she poses as an apprentice for the Otherwhere Post where she’ll be trained in the art of scriptomancy—the dangerous magic that allows couriers to enchant letters and deliver them to other worlds. But looking into her father’s past draws more attention than she’d planned. Her secretive, infuriatingly handsome mentor knows she’s lying about her identity, and time is running out to convince him to trust her. Worse, she begins to receive threatening letters, warning her to drop her investigation—or else. For Maeve to unravel the mystery of what happened seven years ago, she may have to forfeit her life.
Overall, this was a pretty entertaining story even though at times Maeve does some really stupid things which ends up getting her in trouble, especially towards the end when she finally understands what really happened 7 years ago. The mystery and plot twists were nice, and the romance wasn't over the top nor did it take away from the plotline. I would have liked to see more depth in the magical system.
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