You’ll be rooting and yelling at their betrayals, secrets, and decisions. The ones who manage to join our main cast only continue to grow, evolve, and change before our eyes. Cogman is a master at introducing some compelling and intriguing side characters. What I mean by that, is that there are politics and manipulation at work outside of their main mission. With a book that promises espionage, there must be action right? But there’s even more intrigue revolved in Library politics and higher order world building. If you ever knew a librarian who seemed to know everything then you will love Irene. Over the course of the series, she goes through some intense growth, but I will always remember her fondly. There are sticky situations to escape, disguises to be created, and books to save! Often these missions have dangerous consequences. In order to do this, the Library has to employ Librarians to search for these books. Part of Irene’s job is to extract and bargain for these books to facilitate order and reign in chaos. There are multiple Worlds and so multiple editions of books. Yet failure is not an option – the nature of reality itself is at stake. Soon, she’s up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger, clues and secret societies. Irene’s new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own. London’s underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book.Īdding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested – the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic.

But when they arrive, it’s already been stolen. Their mission – to retrieve a dangerous book. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she’s posted to an alternative London.

Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities.

The invisible library book series