Review: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

Synopsis:


Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative 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—because it isn’t just Irene’s reputation at stake, it’s the nature of reality itself...

My Review:

I thought this was a well thought out and unique read. It takes a bit to get into but once you do there is no putting it down. I love the idea of different worlds all with an invisible library connecting them. I really enjoyed that each world in the book was unique, with its own quirks. Any book that can have the fantasy creatures like dragons, elves, and fae all thrown in is great in my opinion!

I received this book from Blogging For Books in exchange for an honest review.

About the Author

Genevieve Cogman is a freelance author, who has written for several role-playing game companies. Her work includes GURPS Vorkosigan and contributions to the In Nomine role-playing game line for Steve Jackson Games: contributions to Exalted 2nd Editionand other contributions to the Exalted and Orpheus lines for White Wolf Publishing: Hearts, Swords and Flowers: The Art of Shoujo for Magnum Opus: and contributions to the Dresden Files RPG for Evil Hat Productions. She currently works for the NHS in England in the HSCIC as a clinical classifications specialist.

She has had five books of her series about the multidimensional Library accepted by Tor Books; the first three books, The Invisible Library, The Masked City, and The Burning Page, are now available, and the fourth, The Lost Plot, will be available in December 2017.