Genevieve CogmanFantasy · Fiction
The Invisible Library
Synopsis
Irene works as a spy for the Library, a secretive organization that gathers important works of fiction from many different realities. Her latest assignment sends her and her assistant Kai to an alternate London to retrieve a dangerous book. By the time they get there, someone has already stolen it.
The city's underground factions are all hunting the same volume, and some of them will kill to reach it first. This London is also steeped in chaos, a condition that bends the laws of nature and lets supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic roam freely. Irene cannot count on the world behaving the same way twice.
Kai complicates matters further. He is hiding secrets that may prove as volatile as the world around them. Irene has to work out whom to trust while sorting through conflicting clues and sinister secret societies.
This is a fantasy adventure with a spy-mission frame, set across a bookish multiverse and an alternate city. The tone leans toward danger and intrigue, with magic as a constant hazard. The stakes reach past Irene's reputation, since the nature of reality itself hangs on the outcome.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10



