Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine

Paper and Fire (Great Library, #2)

by Rachel Caine

In Ink and Bone, Jess Brightwell learned that the shining light of the Great Library of Alexandria was an illusion ... one that hides great darkness. Now, barred from his goal of becoming a Scholar, he's determined to make his career as a High Garda soldier a success. But news that a friend may be imprisoned and suffering brings Jess back with his old companions, and to a common cause: rescue.

Failure means death. Success means that their uneasy truce with the Archivist becomes open war.

But they have a secret that may shake the very foundations of the Library ... if they dare to use it.

Paper and Fire takes us on a breathless journey from battlefields to ancient tombs, from Alexandria to Rome, and to the edge of a world that must change to survive.

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I received this ARC as part of Miss Print’s ARC Adoption Program. I in love with this series the idea is so fresh and addicting to know what gonna happen next. I am wrapped up in this word of Jess the book smuggler now working for the Great Library and Morgan who he loves with all his soul. I am fighting along side him as he trying to fight for what he really believes the library stood for but finds out along the way that belief is false.

Their one major part of this story where i was crying tears

"The first shelf of books was fully on fire with licks of greenish-white flame. The second above it smoked, and Jess could see paper blackening and curling at the edges.

Book after book.

Level after level."

All that information gone in greenish evil fire. I love this book and ready for the next one this is a very unique series and Rachel Caine does a great job of drawing you in with all the twists and turns and players you thought were dead maybe not being so dead. Great book i highly recommend the first one which is Ink and Bone.

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