Angie
Written on Sep 29, 2019
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Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time.
In 48 AD, a fire set by the troops of Julius Caesar destroyed much of the Great Library of Alexandria. It was the first of several disasters that resulted in the destruction of the accumulated knowledge of the ancient world. But what if the fire had been stopped? What would the Library have become?
Fast forward: the Great Library is now a separate country, protected by its own standing army. It has grown into a vast power, with unquestioned and unrivalled supremacy. Jess Brightwell, seventeen and very smart, with a gift for mechanical engineering, has been sent into the Great Library as a spy for his criminal family. Magical spells and riots abound in this epic new YA series.
#InkandBone
"You have ink in your blood boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you." (Callum Brightwell)
"All it will take is a spark, and everything's on fire." (Jess Brightwell)
"Remember, losing one pint of blood’s an accident. Losing two is careless.”
It was a nice dream, and he let himself have it for the length of the kiss that followed, fierce and sweet and promising things that he knew would never be.
Kisses could lie as well as words.
Tota est scientia. Knowledge is all.
The Library was never wrong.
There is no place in the world for librarians who lack the will to defend books against wars, rebels, and Burners. Books cannot fight for themselves
And it will satisfy the Burners - what do they want? Books they can own. The Library not watching what they read. Freedom. This is freedom, in this ink. This page.