The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell

 

Have you ever wanted to right a wrong that you made or wish you had the ability to time travel and make a different choice?  In this mysterious and magical book Eve lives with guilt everyday that she is the reason that her sister, Bella died.  She feels haunted by her sister and even has an octopus tattoo that moves on her body.  One day Eve meets an old man named Max Everly who tells her to go back to the hotel.  Eve knows a Max Everly, a famous composer, but he has been dead for years.  Eve decides that she will find this hotel and when she does she discovers that she has been there before.  The only hitch is that the hotel closed in 1935 and Eve was not even born yet. 

There is so much to this book.  The more I read, the more I had to keep reading to try and figure out how everything is connected.  There are so many great elements to this book including time travel, mystery, historical fiction, and romance.  But it is also a story about survival.  Eve and Max are two characters who have both been through so much.  I could feel their pain and I was rooting for them the whole way through the novel.  

This is truly a unique novel with so many different layers.  If you love time travel, magic, a mysterious hotel that is always changing, and a few octopuses. this is the novel for you!!

4/5 Stars