Genevieve Cogman

The third title in Genevieve Cogman's clever and exciting The Invisible Library series, The Burning Page is an action-packed literary adventure! Librarian spy Irene has professional standards to maintain. Standards that absolutely do not include making hasty, unplanned escapes through a burning besieged building. But when the gateway back to your headquarters dramatically malfunctions, one must improvise. And after fleeing a version of Revolutionary France astride a dragon (also known as her assistant, Kai), Irene soon discovers she's not the only one affected. Gates back to the Library are malfunctioning across a multitude of worlds, creating general havoc. She and Kai are tasked with a mission to St Petersburg's Winter Palace, to retrieve a book which will help restore order. However, such plans rarely survive first contact with the enemy - particularly when the enemy is the traitor Alberich. A nightmare figure bent on the Library's destruction, Alberich gives Irene a tainted 'join me or die' job offer. Meanwhile, Irene's old friend Vale has been damaged by exposure to Chaotic forces and she has no idea how to save him. When another figure from her past appears, begging for help, Irene has to take a good hard look at her priorities. And of course try to save the Library from absolute annihilation. Saving herself would be a bonus.Irene's adventures feature stolen books, secret agents and forbidden societies - think Doctor Who but with librarian spies!

The Burning Page

this book didn't have as much risk as previous ones. they overcame the story's obstacle quite easily in my opinion. all the other characters had a more minor role and irene carried the entire story.

Krystal

Becky

I don't know what to say on this one. I loved the expansion of the universe but I very much skimmed through because I wasn't in the mood for it but wanted to read before I returned it to the library. It was a good book in the grand scheme but I really struggled to finish because I didn't want to be reading so I feel like I couldn't write a full review because my feelings were marred by my indifference to everything.

Sahi K

The third book of this installment starts off slightly after the end of The Masked City. Irene and Kai have recovered a book from revolutionary France but realize that the Traverse back to the Library has gone up in flames. Kai has no choice but to assume his true dragon form and fly back to London. When it becomes known that many Traverses have the same issue and the Library’s old arch rival Alberich is behind it, Irene tries to figure out ways to handle him and possibly attack instead of the defense being put up by the senior Librarians. The story ends with a good resolution with scope for many more adventures.

This book is definitely the best of the series with a very engaging plot. We also get to know more about the Library itself, meet new Librarians, learn about its internal politics and the metaphysics surrounding Alberich’s plan to destroy it. Irene is the usual amazing protagonist – supremely confident, calm and composed and able to extricate herself from almost any disastrous situation. However, this book also shows her dealing with the consequences of Kai’s rescue, his PTSD and Vale’s chaos contamination. There is also an amazing scene between her and Vale, who is so much like her favorite literary detective. The Irene Adler – Sherlock style forbidden attraction between these two is irresistible and hopefully they will get together in the books to come.

The ending of the book is also heartbreaking in a way (for Irene as well) but she does the best she can in the moment. But the next books have been nicely setup and this series can only get better and better.

Alice

Pam Sartain

The Burning Page by Genevive Cogman (The Invisible Library 3) has the return of Alberich, the former librarian, turned fae magic user, and he's up to something!  

The great detective, Vale, after rescuing Irene and Kai in the previous book in a fae heavy world, is suffering the aftereffects of this, and Irene isn't sure what she can do to help him!

Access to the Library is starting to go, leading to Irene being taken back to their base of operations by Kai, in dragon form!  So that's another thing that Irene needs to look into!

This is an action packed book, with thrills and surprises.  I really enjoyed this book, and this series!  It's fantasy, with action, spies, and books!

 The Burning Page  was publishing on 15th December 2015 and is available from  Amazon ,  Waterstones  and  Bookshop.org .

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My reviews for the other books in the series are below:

 The Invisible Library  (book 1)

 The Masked City  (book 2)

Anastaciya

So many twists in this one! I really hope the last book in the series comes out soon

Nona G

Good reliable fun adventure book. Not the best, not the worst, but fun light read for the summer. This is basically why I picked up these novels in the first place.

This time Irene and Kai face Alberich again and I was sort of let down by the fact that they fight the big bad in the third instalment... but who knows, maybe there would be another encounter, seeing how the book ended somewhat open.

I found the this third volume more entertaining in terms of adventure and thrill. A lot is happening and he action is not as dragged on as in the first two books, where I got the feeling that the author had a 300 page target that she struggled somehow to fill. This is cleaner, less forced from this point of view. We are also given a little bit more details about the Library than in the previous ones, but a lot is still left unsaid, which I find annoying. If you're going to drag the action along, at least give the readers more insight into how everything works. To me, it looks as if the writer herself has no idea what the inner works of the Library should be and she is just inventing stuff along the way.

What most annoyed me, though, was the ending. We get sort of a finality, but then nothing happens. We get no glimpse of what happens in the aftermath, and the next novel is mute as well on this aspect. 

However, nice beach read, which is where I'm at right now getting on with volume 4.

Sian Hutchinson 

Rochelle Butcher

Tamara Wurst

Grace Piper

Monique Baham

Sian

Laura

Karolina Södergren

The third title in Genevieve Cogman's clever and exciting The Invisible Library series, The Burning Page is an action-packed literary adventure! When it's your job to save the day - where do you start? Librarian spy Irene has standards to maintain, especially while on probation. And absconding from a mission via a besieged building doesn't look good. But when her escape route home goes up in flames, what's a spy to do? However, it seems Gates back to the Library are malfunctioning across dozens of worlds. Worse still, her nemesis Alberich is responsible -and he plans to annihilate the Library itself. Irene and assistant Kai are posted to St Petersburg, to help combat this threat. Here Alberich emerges, as Irene tries to save her friend Vale and foil assassination attempts. Then one incredibly dangerous opportunity to save the Library emerges. Saving herself would be a bonus . . . Irene's adventures feature stolen books, secret agents and forbidden societies - think Doctor Who but with librarian spies!

Vilde

Librarian spy Irene and her apprentice Kai return for another "tremendously fun, rip-roaring adventure," (A Fantastical Librarian)--the third in the bibliophilic fantasy series from the author of The Masked City. Never judge a book by its cover... Due to her involvement in an unfortunate set of mishaps between the dragons and the Fae, Librarian spy Irene is stuck on probation, doing what should be simple fetch-and-retrieve projects for the mysterious Library. But trouble has a tendency to find both Irene and her apprentice, Kai--a dragon prince--and, before they know it, they are entangled in more danger than they can handle... Irene's longtime nemesis, Alberich, has once again been making waves across multiple worlds, and, this time, his goals are much larger than obtaining a single book or wreaking vengeance upon a single Librarian. He aims to destroy the entire Library--and make sure Irene goes down with it. With so much at stake, Irene will need every tool at her disposal to stay alive. But even as she draws her allies close around her, the greatest danger might be lurking from somewhere close--someone she never expected to betray her...

The Burning Page

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