![]() ![]() It shouldn’t have shocked Jess when he found out just how far the Library is willing to go to keep its lock on the world’s knowledge. At first, he thought that all he had to worry about was keeping the Library from finding out that his dad is calling in favors. He knows that the Great Library and its army/police force, the Garda, are far from benevolent. Jess passes and heads to Alexandria for training. And yet, against all odds, his father has bought him an attempt at the entrance exams. ![]() His family are notorious book-smugglers, feeding Londoners’ need for original, non-Library controlled texts. Jess Brightwell is one of the last people one might expect to become a trainee at the Great Library. I’m pleased to report that the story and characters I found in Ink and Bone more than live up to its fabulous premise. This Great Library is sinister, stifling, and apparently invulnerable. Put the Great Library Caine created is the farthest thing from libraries in our world that I can imagine. The premise of this book is catnip for me, a librarian. ![]() In the world Rachel Caine created for Ink and Bone, the Library and the Serapeum thrived and grew into a world power through its control of information. In our history, the Library of Alexandria was destroyed by the Romans. ![]()
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