But, she must also manage her enigmatic and insouciant assistant Kai, and a potentially devastating cross-world rivalry between the fae or fairy forces who root for chaos, and their dragon rivals who strive for order. Irene is often in great danger, performing essential ‘book acquisition’ missions. Or prevent order from becoming too rigid. This powerful link can stop a world from descending further into chaos. Sometimes the only way of keeping a world safe is to steal, beg or borrow a unique book from that world, and take it to the Library for safekeeping. Alternate versions of Earth exist on a spectrum from order to chaos, and books are one of their main stabilizing influences. And this is absolutely necessary because the stability of all alternate worlds is at stake. Protagonist Irene is a professional librarian spy, ‘liberating’ unique and priceless versions of books by whatever means necessary.
Of course, it’s not quite as simple as the books being donated to the Library. That’s essentially the setup for Genevieve Cogman’s fabulous eclectic urban fantasy series – The Invisible Library. And what’s cooler than a library – how about an invisible one, maintained and curated by parallel world and dimension-hopping librarians? What’s cooler than a book? Loads of books, aka a library.
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