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crbrown224's review against another edition
3.75
lizziestudieshistory's review against another edition
4.0
Cogman did have me worried for a minute there with Irene and Kai - I'm not sure I completely approve of their relationship but I'm much less hesitant about it now their roles have changed! I was in fact quite worried and had a horrifying moment where I thought my escapism would make me cry, but once again I'm left with warm gushy emotions by Cogman. It's a fabulous, fun, slighlty trashy (in the most brilliant way) series and it's one of my unapologetic favourites!
karenholmes's review against another edition
5.0
Irene is a sworn Librarian to the Library, and that makes her a spy and a thief in a way because she visits different worlds collecting books to stabilize the whole set of worlds.
There are worlds of chaos (more fae oriented) and worlds of order (dragon oriented) and humans live in almost all, sometimes just props to the whim of the fae who use them in their need for stories.
In this case, Irene visits the NYC of the 20s with all the mafia and the alcohol and the dress code.
It is one of my favorites from the year and will probably the whole set will be one of my favorite series in years to come too. I adore Genevieve Cogman, her imagination and her characters, her world building and her love of books. I am forever grateful to have read it and will reread again and again. But you know, it's never the same when you reread a book,
nela_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
lottie1803's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
lizzylakes's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Graphic: Death and Suicide
12dejamoo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Spoilery bit:
There was a lot of dragon action in this book and I do like the dragon plots but the Fae plots just hit so much harder. And yes I might be biased because I love Zayanna, but still. Something about the fairytale/story thing just is so interesting to me. But hey, we play a little dragon politics now and that's good too. Plus we get a little of the Fae with Lily so it's not a complete loss.
I particularly liked the scenes in the speakeasies. Idk they were just so fun and Irene sneaking out and tricking people is so fun.
And the dragons and their scary silencing potion! Oh man.
I liked Evariste, it was fun to have another Librarian involved in the plot and see how he used the Language and everything differently to Irene.
Slightly frustrated by the ending with Evariste's daughter's plot kind of just solved quietly offscreen. I guess it's not really the point but yeah it felt like we could have had more of that. But oh well, I did like the conversation between Irene and Ya Yu.
mairelon's review against another edition
5.0
The Lost Plot starts, as so many Invisible Library books do, with everything going spectacularly and catastrophically wrong and with intrepid Librarian Irene Sometimes-Winters right in the middle of it all. After a clandestine meeting with a politically ambitious Dragon, Irene and Kai are once again drawn into the world of Dragon court politics, this time to the backdrop of Prohibition New York. Behind the glitz and glamour of the city, gangs run rampant and dragons plot and scheme, threatening the safety of the city's inhabitants and the stability of the world itself.
I felt like I wanted an age to get my hands on this book, and it was absolutely worth it. I really enjoyed this adventure. Though it hardly gave me time to process what happened before the next thing went ahead and happened, it was a really fun read. I've always found the Invisible Library book exasperating in this way, but I love them all the same. The Lost Plot provides a look into Dragon/Library relations
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( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)And, well, look as far as the ending goes
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I loved the ending. I'm a massive sap. I love grand happy romantic endings an boy did The Lost Plot deliver.The following is a series of quick, ill-articulated notes:
- As some may know, I am in the process of completing my Master's Degree in Information Management, in a effort to better equip myself for my job as a librarian. During this course, we were asked to think about the depiction of the the field in the media and pop culture and I coulnd't help thinking about this series.
- There are some obvious differences between a librarian's duties (shelving, reference work, cataloguing etc.) and a Librarian's duties (keeping the balance between powerful magical forces, going undercover to acquire rare books, accessing a world outside of time and space etc.).
- The Library also seems to function as more of a horde than an information repository. I really hope that the ethos of the library comes more into question as the series progresses. A character actually questions the point of a library that doesn't share information and I was like, hey yeah if you wanted to collect and preserve a bunch of dusty things make it an archive or a museum. So it'll be interesting to see how that works out.
anns_storybound_sanctuary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Minor: Kidnapping