The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever)

by Zeno Alexander

With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored - until she discovers a secret doorway into the ultimate library. Maze like and reality-bending, the library contains all the universe's wisdom. Every book ever written, and every fact ever known, can be found within its walls. And Lenora becomes its newly appointed Fourth Assistant Apprentice Librarian.

She rockets to the stars, travels to a future filled with robots, and faces down a dark nothingness that wants to destroy all knowledge. To save the library, Lenora will have to test her limits and uncover secrets hidden among its shelves.

• ISBN10: 1250169178
• ISBN13: 9781250169174
• Publish Date: 30 May 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 5 April 2024
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Imprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 208
• Language: English

Reviews

[nsperry92]

A charming, imaginative read

[tweetybugshouse]

This is the perfect type of middle grade novel if your a lover of knowledge. To set you the story and not give it all away we basically have Lenora who is bored and her parents never pay any attention to her. One day she gets dragged around town by her nanny and one of the stops is the library. Here where your adventure in knowledge awaits you if you dare to continue reading. Lenora is sucked into a world of danger when she is offered a job as Fourth Assistant Apprentice Librarian. Now like all middle grade novels or at least the ones i read you need to set your adult serious aside and just escape back to when you were little and all the rules of reality did not weight down your imagination. That why i pick up these books they are fast reads for me but they let me just have a fun jaunt of on adventure where things really don’t make sense.

Lenora ends up answering and solving some really amazing quests as she progresses in her job. You learn fun facts and even may get inquisitive about what your reading enough to go pick up some other books and learn more about penguins, ants, or ancient languages that have been lost to time. If your a parent trying to entice your child to gain some new information or you have one who is naturally curious about things this may be just the book to scratch that itch.

[Briana @ Pages Unbound]

Source: ARC from publisher giveaway

Initial Thoughts: I have to think about this some more. I didn't like it. There's no logic in the story and it's just wild event after wild event with too fast pacing. It's a bit "in your face" with its message about knowledge and libraries. But maybe this is just the thing younger children would like. I can imagine it being a popular lower middle grade book for its target audience, just not one of those books that's good enough to also appeal to older readers.