Book review : The invisible library by Genevieve Cogman

The first installment of an adventure featuring stolen books, secret agents and forbidden societies - think Doctor Who with librarian spies!

Irene must be at the 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.

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.

*****

When I read the synopsis, I was very excited to get my hands on this book. Who wouldn't like the idea of a spy working for a mysterious library and travelling to different universes to obtain special books? I was very tempted to read this book, so I bought together the second installment; The Masked City. 

This book was about a spy named Irene and her assistant, Kai embarked on a mission to an alternative chaos-infected London to retrieve a book. However, the book was already stolen and they have to play detective and risked their life to find the stolen book.

Frankly, I did not like this book. The idea was very interesting and fresh, however I did not like how the author wrote this book. The plot was confusing and I felt like the dialogues were inconsistent, dragging and not interesting. I got bored in the middle of the book but I tried my best to finish it anyway. I like the general idea of the story, but I think the writer failed to write well or presenting this story as good as I thought it would be. Irene's character was okay though, she was a street smart woman with interesting pasts.

I give this book 3 stars.