The Invisible Library

The Invisible Library, Book 1

De: Genevieve Cogman

Narrado por: Kristin Atherton

Duración: 12 h y 2 m

Resumen del Editor

One spy. One dangerous book. One deadly mission. The first in a delightful fantasy mystery series, The Invisible Library is the astounding debut from Genevieve Cogman.

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. Along with her new assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission – to retrieve a dangerous book. But lo and behold, when they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book.

In this world teeming with supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic, Irene soon finds herself up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger, clues and secret societies. And Kai is also hiding secrets of his own. Yet failure is not an option – the nature of reality itself is at stake.

'It's a breath of fresh air' – Guardian

Continue the journey with the second adventurous title in the The Invisible Library series, The Masked City. Genevieve is also the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Scarlet - which reimagines the tale of The Scarlet Pimpernel, but with vampires, mages and magic . . .

©2015 Genevieve Cogman (P)2021 Macmillan Publishers International Limited

Reseñas de la Crítica

A dazzling bibliophilic debut (Charles Stross, author of the Laundry Files, including The Atrocity Archives)

Great story but audio wide range

I loved the story but the way it was recorded was not good. The level varies from a whisper to an ear shattering yell. The audio engineer should have applied compression to reduce the audio level swings.

Engaging

Engaging story with good characters and plot twists. would recommend for young adult readers and adults.

Brought me back to the world of fantasy

I have been incapable of maintaining focus long enough to get through a book without taking at least one year. After getting this recommendation from a friend, I blew through it in four days love the cheekiness. I love the fascinating intersection between magic, fantasy, technology, history, and future.

Invisible library

Keeps your attention. The reader did a great job so you were able to tell the difference between characters

how important are stories?

it turns out stories are vitally important. (but you knew that). there is a library where all the books ate kept. the librarians go to great lengths to preserve stories from a thousand worlds. come visit the invisible library. this is a marvelous beginning to, what promises, a fantastic series.

Meh

Narrator isn’t great. Story takes random sidetracks that come out of nowhere. It’s just ok.

Loved it!!

Dragons. Books. Crime. Deceit. Adventure Alternate realities in other Worlds, seriously whats not to love ❣️ A great detective story.. read on 😎

Better premise than story

I really wanted to love this, but about halfway through it descends into clusterfudge and was less fun to follow the story.

I really tried (Reviewed after 2.3 books)

This series has great promise and I personally really liked several of the characters...so I really tried to give it a chance.

I think the main problem is the narrator. She is overly dramatic and in the wrong places. She makes everyone sound desperate, extremely agitated, and over-reactive- which then makes them sound idiotic (and often juvenile). I was hoping she would work out the kinks (some narrators seem to) but after 2 books unfortunately that is not the case. For a while I thought the writing was lending to the issue, but I can't speak to that as I can't get past the narrator.

I do think the writing could be more polished. it doesn't always seem to hold my attention and if I miss a part I don't bother rewinding, which to me is a significant sign.

I can't continue the series...they all just sound like inexperienced people with poor communication skills.

Great start to a series

Reminiscent of one of my favorite authors, Jodi Taylor. It was Dr Who meets Sherlock Holmes. Action packed plot with characters that I expect to continue to develop. Looking forward to reading on!