Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book.
Adding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested - the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic. Irene's new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own.
Soon, she's up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger, clues and secret societies. Yet failure is not an option - the nature of reality itself is at stake.
The Invisible Library is followed by the second adventurous title, The Masked City.
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Irene passed the mop across the stone floor in smooth, careful strokes, idly admiring the gleam of wet flagstones in the lantern-light. CHAPTER ONE
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(@panmacmillan, 15 December 2014, ebook, 337 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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This has been on my radar for ages. I bought the book not long after it's release and I don't know why I waited so long to read it. It's right up my tree and exactly the kind of book I usually love. It's a fantasy novel, one of my favourite genres and involves books and libraries two of my favourite things. It's a win-win for me. I had such fun reading this book and look forward to the reast of the series.
