The Secret Chapter (The Invisible Library, #6)

by Genevieve Cogman

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 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.

• ISBN10: 1984804766
• ISBN13: 9781984804761
• Publish Date: 7 January 2020 (first published 14 November 2019)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Imprint: Ace
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 352
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781984804761

Reviews

[tweetybugshouse]

Peace accords signed, and all is well between Dragon, Fae, and Human alike, and Irene is eager to get back to the business of retrieving books. Now, a librarian in residence and commissioner of keeping the peace negotiations going, she been tasked to retrieve a book, of course, but this time to save a place near and dear to her heart. The owner of the said book has not signed the treaty yet, so she is also tasked with getting him to do so. I was a bit bored with this one as there was not as much action or danger as I seen in previous books, and everything seemed to pretty much follow what you come to expect from this series. I was hoping for more romance to develop between Kai and Irene, but I am not sure that will happen. I am invested in reading about the library's adventures, and with each new book, we learn more about Irene's past and hope that the next one does open some of those doors.

[bumblingbookworm]

This review was originally posted on The Bumbling Bookworm

What more can I say about this series, now we're at book 6?  It's hard to review without giving away spoilers or just squealing in glee, but I'll try to be somewhat coherent.  Just when I thought this series couldn't get any better, Cogman adds in a heist storyline... A heist!!  I adore heist stories and this was so much fun to read.  It was fast-paced, action packed and very difficult to predict what was going to happen next.  It had Ocean's 12 vibes for me, which I won't complain about!

For those who don't enjoy the political aspects of this series, I think you'll like this instalment as it's more focused on the adventure and the character development of Irene and Kai.  I'm so sad I've finished all the books in this series so far - I'm kind of regretting my decision to read them all so quickly now there are no more left for me to read.  Luckily book 7 (The Dark Archive) is supposed to be published sometime in 2020 so at least I have that to look forward to :)

[Terri M. LeBlanc]

Another solid installation in The Invisible Library series that expands the world of the dragons.

My only criticism is that the number of characters the reader is required to keep track of in this nod to great heist movies makes the plot a bit unwieldy.

I received this book from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.