The Invisible Library is Genevieve Cogman’s debut and the opening of a new series in fantasy. Told in the third person with a focus on Irene, a Junior Librarian sent to retrieve a specific iteration of Grimm’s fairy tales.
Shuttling between alternate dimensions, Irene and other Librarians are bound to protect individual works of fiction by collecting them to a secret library that rests between all the dimensions available. This work reeled me in almost immediately, as it would for any bibliophile or fantasy aficionado. Cogman uses distinct and intelligent language without putting comprehension beyond the reader’s grasp.
Evocative of Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, and The Dresden Files stylistically, The Invisible Library is adventurous, magical, and fun. I sincerely look forward to the next book in the series.
