The Invisible Library

The Invisible Library

2014 • 341 pages

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Average rating3.6

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ONE THING ANY LIBRARY WILL TELL YOU: THE TRUST IS MUCH STRANGER THAN FICTION...

Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant, Kai, have been sent to an alternate London. Their mission: Retrieve a particularly dangerous book. The problem: By the time they arrive, it's already been stolen.

London's underground factions are prepared to fight to the death to find the tome before Irene and Kai do, a problem compounded by the fact that this world is chaos infested--the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic to run rampant. To make matters worse, Kai is hiding something--secrets that could be just as volatile as the chaos-filled world itself.

Now Irene is caught in a puzzling web of deadly danger, conflicting clues, and sinister secret societies. And failure is not an option--becuase it isn't just Irene's reputation at stake; it's the nature of reality itself...

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The Invisible Library

The Invisible Library is a 9-book series with 8 primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Genevieve Cogman.


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This was such a unique story! Loved the magic system. Buuut the story really dragged in some places. It took me forever to finish it

May 16, 2022

Nice plot and nice ideas, but flat characters.

May 26, 2020
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