The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
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3/5. Irene works for a transdimensional library, which tasks her with retrieving a unique manuscript from a steampunk Britain with magic and fae and a Sherlock Holmes analog.
I liked this! I needed something uncomplicated – protip: don't read Illuminae when you are having a bad month – and this hit the spot. Bonus points for a protagonist who is some kind of queer, as yet unspecified; minus points for doing a lot of telling about the development of an unlikely friendship and not enough showing. But more bonus points for the actually terrible villain; minus points for the really really obvious setup for a later reveal which is going to be deeply wearisome Gosh, she doesn't know her own last name…and time moves differently in the library…including a pregnancy not progressing, it is implied…and the villain had a sister who had a child…no idea so mysterious gosh.
3/5. Irene works for a transdimensional library, which tasks her with retrieving a unique manuscript from a steampunk Britain with magic and fae and a Sherlock Holmes analog.
I liked this! I needed something uncomplicated – protip: don't read Illuminae when you are having a bad month – and this hit the spot. Bonus points for a protagonist who is some kind of queer, as yet unspecified; minus points for doing a lot of telling about the development of an unlikely friendship and not enough showing. But more bonus points for the actually terrible villain; minus points for the really really obvious setup for a later reveal which is going to be deeply wearisome Gosh, she doesn't know her own last name…and time moves differently in the library…including a pregnancy not progressing, it is implied…and the villain had a sister who had a child…no idea so mysterious gosh.
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Date: 2017-03-04 02:59 am (UTC)Yeah, I think I will tear through the rest of this series once I'm not doing my year of reading only new-to-me authors.
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