Irene’s mission to save Kai and avert Armageddon will take her to a dark, alternate Venice where it’s always Carnival.

With this act of aggression, the fae are determined to trigger a war between their people – and the forces of order and chaos themselves. Kai’s dragon heritage means he has powerful allies, but also powerful enemies in the form of the fae. She discovers he’s been kidnapped by the fae faction and the repercussions could be fatal. Librarian-spy Irene is working undercover in an alternative London when her assistant Kai goes missing. Yet failure is not an option – the nature of reality itself is at stake. Soon, she’s up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger, clues and secret societies. Irene’s new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own. London’s underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book.Īdding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested – the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic. But when they arrive, it’s already been stolen. Their mission – to retrieve a dangerous book. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she’s posted to an alternative London. (Jan.Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. Agent: Lucienne Diver, the Knight Agency. It’s a joy to see this series going strong. Bibliophiles new to the series will be charmed by the premise and find this an easy starting point, while returning readers will be thrilled with the nail-biting conclusion. When Irene discovers an obscure story of the Library’s founding that hints at a secret at the heart of the Library-and may explain Alberich’s betrayal-Irene faces a terrible choice between protecting her friends and fulfilling her mission. Irene and friends-a human detective, a dragon prince, and a fae apprentice-delve into myths and folklore with scholarly diligence to fill in the gaps about Alberich’s past amid mounting rumors of worlds disappearing, and increased political unrest between dragon and fae. Cogman skillfully gets new readers up to speed on the rich worldbuilding-in which an interdimensional library preserves the balance between worlds through the stories it houses-as Irene is assigned a top-secret mission to hunt down Alberich, a nefarious traitor to the library who she’s recently learned might be her father. Cogman’s thrilling eighth Invisible Library fantasy (after The Dark Archive) finds librarian Irene Winters and her motley crew investigating a conspiracy rooted in the origins of the Library itself.

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