Books apparently exist across multiple worlds, so I haven't quite worked out the logistics on that one, but why let petty multiple-world details bother me? After an adventurous opening chapter in which Irene completes a retreval, she heads back to the Library hoping for time to work on her own projects. Only they don't yet, and so junior librarians like Irene are assigned to retrieve unique books from worlds connected to the Library. Irene is a resident of the Library, capital intended, a sort of reverse-Plutonian ideal library in which all books reside. Like a Pixar comic, there may be quite a bit that is young/new adult, but it is done well enough to be enjoyed by all ages, even precocious younger ones (unlike my recent read of Wake of Vultures). I gave it a shot and am pleased with how it went. Sure, you may have started a January diet, but really, just one won't ruin anything, right? I'm often adverse to YA, but a friend's enthusiastic review (thanks, Mikhail!) had me reconsidering. Add in a cover that looks like faded and cracked leather with gilt lettering and it is like leaving a plate of freshly baked cookies in a work breakroom. Time for other heroes.Titles with 'library' and 'bookstore' are irresistible to readers. So good luck to Irene, Kay, Vale: once they discover the secret of the Library, they can take a bow and live happily ever after.
Endless fantasy series are also often overgrown coming-of-age fictions where the young and inexperienced character has aged, learned lot of things and become too powerful for ordinary evil characters to be interesting opponents, leading the author to generate more and more unlikely masters of evil. The big risk is to get too confortable with the characters who begin to turn in (paper) friends – a not very healthy situation. Fantasy is too rich in endless stories where characters are beginning to feel threadbare, not having anything new to show to surprise us. On the other hand you are right to end this story. I will regret not having an easy way to the problem of finding a gift idea for my family at the end of eacg year. Even protagonists need a rest now and again. And while Irene and Kai and the others are on pause, there may be more from them in the future. (Book 8 of the Invisible Library series, The Untold Story, will be coming out later this year. Then an English maid discovers the only power that could stop them. Assuming she survives. These predators are being offered sanctuary by their aristocratic British kin, but at great cost to London’s ordinary people.
However, the Scarlet Pimpernel, a disguised British noble, is determined to rescue them. In Revolutionary France, the aristocrats are vampires – and they face the guillotine. But it’s not the Invisible Library – it involves the Scarlet Pimpernel. I’m delighted to share that Pan Macmillan’s bought a new trilogy from me.
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