Time-travelling, dimension-jumping, Librarian-spy Irene and dragon-prince Kai will have to team up with an unlikely band of misfits to pull off an amazing art heist—or risk the wrath of a dangerous villain with a secret island lair.A Librarian’s work is never done, and Irene is summoned to the Library. The world where she grew up is in danger of veering deep into chaos, and she needs to obtain a … needs to obtain a particular book to stop this from happening. Her only choice is to contact a mysterious Fae information-broker and trader of rare objects: Mr. Nemo.
Irene and Kai make their way to Mr. Nemo’s remote Caribbean island and are invited to dinner, which includes unlikely company. Mr. Nemo has an offer for everyone there: he wants them to steal a specific painting from a specific world. But to get their reward, they will have to form a team, including a dragon techie, a Fae thief, a gambler, a driver, and the muscle. Their goal? The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, in an early twenty-first-century world, where their toughest challenge might be each other.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as I have all the other books in the series. I HIGHLY recommend giving this series a try.
This book was fantastic! I remember reading the first book in this series, The Invisible Library, right around its publication date and knew that this was going to be a very special series. I have looked forward to each installment and have yet to be disappointed. One of the things that I love about the series is that the possibilities are endless. This book was my favorite in the series to date.
You would think that Irene and Kai would get a bit of a break after all of their work to secure a very important treaty but the fun never seems to stop for this pair. After a quick assassination attempt, they must face Irene’s parents which proved to be an eye-opening situation. Before long, Irene is summoned to the Library and given the task to secure a very special book. Irene and Kai dealings with Mr. Nemo prove to be more difficult than expected and they find themselves being put on a team to pull off a very big heist.
This was a very exciting book. The action started in the few pages and really never let up. Just getting to Mr. Nemo was an adventure but the fun really got started once they made it to his island. It was really interesting to see Irene and Kai work within a group. Irene has a take-charge attitude which doesn’t always work with the group. The task that they have seems almost impossible and they have to do it with a group that they don’t completely trust. I had no idea how they were going to make it work and I love that the story kept me guessing.
The characters in this book were very well done. I have grown to love Irene and Kai over the course of this series and I liked them even a little more by the end of this book. I was a little sad that Detective Vale only made a quick appearance but there were so many new and interesting characters introduced in this book that I didn’t miss him as much as I would have thought. The crew that Irene and Kai must work with were all really unique individuals. I wasn’t sure who could really be trusted but there were a couple of individuals that really proved themselves in the end.
I would highly recommend this book to others. This is the sixth book in The Invisible Library series which is a series that really should be read in order. I loved the excitement of this story and thought that the task was incredibly unique. Once I started reading this book I did not want to put it down. I cannot wait to read more of this wonderful series!
I received a review copy of this book from Berkley Publishing Group.
After the intrigue and political plotting of the previous book, it was difficult to get excited about an art heist, especially since there was a new cast of characters that I had no connection to. Kai was back to being a sidekick/underling, after growing as a character in the previous book, and Irene was again treating him like a child, despite the two of them being in some sort of relationship — which, admitteldy, is basically a sidenote. It wasn’t until at the very end that the plot picked up a notch, and the buildup to the next larger storyline took place in the epilogue. It seems exciting and promising, so I’m looking forward to reading the next book too.