I’m not interested in working for someone who thinks I should be able to achieve the impossible because it makes for a better story. [p. 148]
Irene and Kai are back in the London they've made their home -- the London where great detective Vale lives and works, and pursues a master criminal known as the Professor; the London where Lord Silver holds court; the London, and Europe, in which both Kai and Irene have become targets of assassins and kidnappers. Who could be behind it all? An old enemy resurrected, or a threat that never really went away? Can Irene's irritating apprentice -- Catherine, Lord Silver's niece, whose ambition is to be the first Fae to enter the Library -- become less irritating and more useful? Can Kai's vexing and overbearing brother Shan Yuan, self-proclaimed tech genius, actually live up to his own ego? And when Vale reveals a devastating connection, is he actually telling the truth, or has his trace of Fae heritage incited him to simply create a good story?
Splendid denouement in the spaces under La Sagrada Familia; some surprising reunions; Catherine's desire to be a librarian rather than a Librarian (she loves books, not the whole keeping-the-balance-twixt-order-and-chaos routine); that showstopping revelation ... A fast and pacy read with a great cliffhanger. And yet, and yet ... the next (and currently last) in the series has been out for a fortnight and I haven't grabbed it yet. Perhaps three of this series in a month would be a surfeit: and there is (I hope) time enough.
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