Saturday, April 11, 2020

Genevieve Cogman

“Irene must be on top of her game or she’ll be off the case – permanently.

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. And 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."

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One of some books I have read and am reading which are about books, libraries, or writing. I like the skill Irene has that she “can use the Language to, in blunt terms, make things do things." She says, “I can’t change a door from a locked door to an open door, but I can make the lock on a door open itself." It’s very exciting to read the part when Irene uses the Language to save herself.