the invisible library series by genevieve cogman

Irene is brilliant and funny and if I was trying to describe her imagine Thursday Next mixed with the Doctor and this series predates Jodie Whittaker by a few years. Into this we meet the young Librarian Irene who gets caught up in events that as the books develop reflect the wider battles between Order and Chaos going on. The Librarians of the Library take those books and by doing so help prevent worlds getting too chaotic by establishing a connection from that world to the Library and its network but also the Library gets the books! And in each world there are books and variations of books and books that where never written in our world.

The conceit is that there are worlds of high order and high chaos worlds of technology and worlds of magic and ones in between. The Library is …yes, a place with books in it …but here books from all over the multiverse. This follows Irene Winters (not her real name) who is a Librarian for The Library – please note the capitals. In 2015 Genevieve Cogman started the Invisible Library series with appropriately The Invisible Library and there have now been six instalments in the series. So how about I show you an ongoing series that takes this to a whole new level? We love how tales explore these strange worlds of the imagination and as we all know a book is a portal to another world. I do note that readers who read a lot tend to love books about books. Please note there may be some mild spoilers in this summary as I look at an ongoing series

The invisible library series by genevieve cogman