The Secret Chapter by Genevieve Cogman

The Secret Chapter (The Invisible Library, #6)

by Genevieve Cogman

In this bookish fantasy adventure, a Librarian spy must fall in with a villainous group to achieve her goals. Imagine Ocean’s Eleven meets James Bond with a pinch of magic. The Secret Chapter is the sixth novel in Genevieve Cogman’s Invisible Library series.

Irene and Kai have to team up with an unlikely band of misfits to pull off an amazing art heist. Or they must risk the wrath of a dangerous villain, in his secret island lair. . .

As Irene tries to manage a fraught Fae–dragon truce and her overbearing parents, she’s given a hot new mission. The world where she grew up is in danger and only one book can save it.

This is held by Mr Nemo, secretive Fae villain and antique dealer, so Irene and Kai travel to his Caribbean retreat to strike a deal. But in return for the book, they must steal a painting from twenty-first-century Vienna. They’ll join a team of dragons, Fae gamblers and thieves, so their greatest challenge may be one another. And some will kill to protect this painting, which hides an extraordinary secret from a past age.

Genevieve is also the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Scarlet - which reimagines the tale of the Scarlet Pimpernel, but with vampires, mages and magic. . .

Reviewed by tweetybugshouse on

3 of 5 stars

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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.

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