2022/161: The Untold Story — Genevieve Cogman

2022/161: The Untold Story — Genevieve Cogman

‘Aunt Isra, I’m a Librarian, and – as you’re doubtless aware – Kai here is a dragon. We don’t live in stories the way that you Fae do.’
‘Ah, but you do,’ Aunt Isra said, unruffled. ‘You just don’t recognize it. Nobody ever does – at the time.’ [loc. 2549]

The finale of the Invisible Library series (first of which was The Invisible Library, read in 2015 and reviewed with the comment 'sets up admirably for a sequel or three' -- The Untold Story is the eighth). There were several unresolved plot threads at the end of The Dark Archive -- Irene's parentage, the balance between chaos and order, the nature of the Library itself -- and these are satisfactorily, though not predictably, resolved.

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