The Library and its librarians guard the balance between the absolute order of the Dragons and the utter chaos of the fae.īecause the worlds in the center, the worlds that have enough chaos to prevent tyranny and allow for growth, but that also have enough order for laws and organizations and society in general to manage to function, are the only worlds on which humans thrive.Īnd all the librarians, except for Irene’s former apprentice, the Dragon Prince Kai, and her current apprentice, the fae bibliophile Catherine, have been human.

When we first met Irene Winters all the way back in the first book, also titled The Invisible Library, as far as the existence of the Library and Irene’s place in it were concerned, the story is in medias res, the middle of the matter.Īs the story has progressed, many of Irene’s adventures have been heists or capers or both, as she generally finds herself and her friends and companions not just jumping from the frying pan into the fire, but in messes where it’s frying pans and fires all the way down.īut part of the reason for all the perils that Irene finds herself facing is that the situation between the worlds is deteriorating. This final book in the Invisible Library series closes at the open. Then the story jumps back to the beginning and we get to see how the situation and characters got into the rather large pickle that they were in when we joined the action. Heist and caper stories often open at the close, meaning that the reader – or viewer in the case of TV and movies – comes into the story as the caper either appears to be succeeding or failing. With her allies endangered and her strongest loyalties under threat, she'll have to trace his past across multiple worlds and into the depths of mythology and folklore, to find the truth at the heart of the Library, and why the Library was first created. But when the Library orders her to kill him, and then Alberich himself offers to sign a truce, she has to discover why he originally betrayed the Library. Irene is trying to learn the truth about Alberich-and the possibility that he's her father.

In this thrilling historical fantasy, time-traveling Librarian spy Irene will need to delve deep into a tangled web of loyalty and power to keep her friends safe. Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Genres: fantasy, gaslamp, historical fantasy, steampunk, urban fantasy Source: supplied by publisher via Edelweiss The Untold Story (The Invisible Library #8) by Genevieve Cogman

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