The Invisible Library, Genevieve Cogman (3.0)
It was hard to pass up a book about spy librarians who can
travel to different time/worlds – great potential, but oddly not as compelling
as one would hope. After reading it, I found out it was categorized as Young
Adult and that makes a bit more sense. The basic idea is that librarians
collect valuable books from various alternate realities, returning them to a
time agnostic main library where they can live without growing older. They utilize
a magical Language as a power and meet many magical creatures in the alternate
realities. This volume follows Irene, an experienced Librarian, and her trainee
to an alternate London to find a Grimm’s Fairy Tales. While there, they find
their task is far more complicated and dangerous than first assumed. I found
the book generally interesting to read, but I was hoping for more depth of
character and more logic in the world building (magic is fine, but consistency
is still needed). This is supposed to be the first in a series and I not
particularly compelled to read on.
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