:) Some light is getting thrown over Irene's family history, or maybe just more questions emerge about it, connecting Books 1 and 3 more closely to each other. We get more actions, more intriguing world-building, internal Library-politics, Kai in his true dragon-shape and a moment bw Irene and Vale that had me both cheering and groaning with frustration. The balance between chaos-forces (fae) and order-forces (dragons) is put into jeopardy alongside the internal balance of The Library itself with bickerings breaking out among the different factions. Librarians get killed, doors (traverses) connecting The Library to alternate worlds get annihilated and the Alberich-generated chaos threatens to usurp everything. I am against panic on a point of principle.Īnother fantastic book by Genevieve Cogman in the Invisible Library-series with the extraordinarily ordinary, uncommonly common, exceptionally unexceptional, anti-kickassly kickass (or is it all the other way-round?) Librarian-Heroine, Irene.Īlberich, The Library's arch-enemy is back on the scene with an Ultimatum: If they don't hand over the management/leadership of The Library to him, he will destroy it. "Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Irene's adventures feature stolen books, secret agents and forbidden societies - think Doctor Who but with librarian spies! And of course try to save the Library from absolute annihilation. When another figure from her past appears, begging for help, Irene has to take a good hard look at her priorities. Meanwhile, Irene's old friend Vale has been damaged by exposure to Chaotic forces and she has no idea how to save him. A nightmare figure bent on the Library's destruction, Alberich gives Irene a tainted 'join me or die' job offer. However, such plans rarely survive first contact with the enemy - particularly when the enemy is the traitor Alberich. She and Kai are tasked with a mission to St Petersburg's Winter Palace, to retrieve a book which will help restore order. Gates back to the Library are malfunctioning across a multitude of worlds, creating general havoc. And after fleeing a version of Revolutionary France astride a dragon (also known as her assistant, Kai), Irene soon discovers she's not the only one affected. But when the gateway back to your headquarters dramatically malfunctions, one must improvise.
Standards that absolutely do not include making hasty, unplanned escapes through a burning besieged building.
Librarian spy Irene has professional standards to maintain. The third title in Genevieve Cogman's clever and exciting The Invisible Library series, The Burning Page is an action-packed literary adventure!
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