Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore was an entertaining read that I thought deserved 3 stars, but it's been a while since I've read a book that produced as much eye rolling as this one has. This book started off great. I couldn't wait to find out the secrets of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. I was under the impression somehow that this book was going to be about time travel. I was very disappointed when I realized this book was about a bunch of Dungeons and Dragons type nerds and their quest to encode a book about immortality. 
 **Spoiler Alert** 
 Turns out the sad group of wanna be wizards have worked their whole lives on breaking this immortality code for nothing, because there is no real secret. The immortality they seek is nothing more than a stupid "moral of the story" revelation. "There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care." 
 What kind of bullshit is that?!?! 
 I did enjoy the quirky characters and felt some kind of sick satisfaction that these dumb cloak wearing weirdos were wrong and there was no such thing as immortality. Ha!