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# The Masked City: The Invisible Library, Book 2

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Excellent Continuation to the Series
  

*by T***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2016*

I loved the first book in this series, The Invisible Library, and was incredibly excited to read this one. After devouring it in one sitting, I can safely say that the sequel does not disappoint.The story begins with Irene and Kai going about their business as Librarian-in-Residence and her assistant when the story opens. There is a small time lapse between the end of the first book and this one, however I believe that it shows how the characters have adapted to their new situations. After a successful book retrieval mission, Kai is kidnapped and the real story begins.As Irene is forced to negotiate with dragons and Fae alike, the reader is given an in-depth view of the world that builds upon the foundation established in the first novel. It was very interesting to see how Irene navigated the world of the Fae, using their own magic to her advantage (well, most of the time). This book takes us far outside of the sphere where Irene and Kai have made their home and it is utterly fascinating to see the contrast between the dragon and Fae controlled spheres.Much like the first novel, Irene accomplishes her goals using mostly her intelligence with a little help from magic. I think what I enjoyed the most about this book is that the damsel in distress trope was given a role reversal. The male dragon was taken captive and was powerless to escape on his own and Irene had to undertake a quest to free him.Overall, this was a highly enjoyable book and I would highly recommend it (although I do suggest reading the first book in the series first as it establishes the world and relationships present in this novel). As for the ending, it made waiting for the third book in the series slightly torturous.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Still a fun romp, but less polished than the first opus
  

*by P***T on Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019*

If you haven’t read the first volume in this series, then … what are you waiting for? You’ll find my review here:https://www.amazon.com/review/R3A42HO9DSJ5HC/[SPOILERS]This second volume is again a fun romp, full of ideas. Irene’s dealings with the Train are especially clever. But this volume also suffers from some flaws the first didn’t have:1. Info dumps. The first volume did a great job at weaving into the story a great deal of background information. The second volume doesn’t have as much new information to communicate, yet it does so more blatantly.2. Repetitions. The same information gets repeated, often more than once. Sometimes we get several versions of the same info dump. Sometimes Irene reports the same events to different characters. It gets tiring.3. The characters do stupid things to facilitate the plot. Right from the start, Irene and Kay, who’ve been attacked already, then warned they were in danger, decide to split for no good reason (just so that Kay can start reporting to Vale first before Irene joined them, which could only save very little time—and there was no countdown involved at this point of the story). Of course, one of them gets kidnapped. <sigh> And toward the end, Irene lets an enemy inch closer and close to her, during negotiations. Of course, the enemy ends leaping at her. And after beating this enemy, she and Vale let her leave unharmed after she swore to take revenge; Irene even unlocks the door for her! This enemy is a Fae, and if they didn’t want to kill her, they could at least have forced her to promise she would not seek revenge, neither directly nor indirectly, through neither action or inaction. But no. They let her leave, just so she can come back in another book to threaten them and their loved ones.4. Information gets forgotten. At some point near the start, Vale and Irene discuss Kay’s kidnapping (I like this passage a lot: it *shows* that both characters are smart) and conclude he couldn’t have been kidnapped by his family for several reasons, the clinching one being that a Fae was involved (as Vale found out) and that no dragon would work with a Fae. But then, surprisingly, Irene and Vale get back to discussing the “Was Key captured by a member of his family?” hypothesis, then Irene delivers the same hypothesis to her supervisor (never mentioning Fae involvement), and then again to Kay’s uncle (again, never mentioning Fae involvement).5. The Language (the “Librarian magic”) gets broader and broader, its limitations vaguer and vaguer. At some point Irene mentions she could just tell a knife to leap to the eye (or heart? I can’t clearly remember) of her enemy, since she knows his name. So why didn’t she do something like that in past, similar circumstances? Also, she did show she could tell an object to find another (or a place). So, can’t she also do the same with a person? Does it mean that no one she knows the name of can ever hide from her? Why didn’t she even try to use this power to find Kay?Wow. It sounds like I hated the book, doesn’t it? I didn’t. I still intend to read the next opus in the series. But yes, I must admit, after the first volume, I expected better from this one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    FAST-PACED, A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR, VILLAINOUS VILLAINS AND AN INDOMITABLE HEROINE -WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT FROM A BOOK?
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2018*

COGMAN, Genevieve.  The Masked City (The Invisible Library Novel).  Ace.  2016. 384p.  $16 (pb).COGMAN, Genevieve.  The Burning Page (The Invisible Library Novel).  Ace.  2017. 368p.  $16 (pb).Having read and enjoyed novels 1 and 4 in The Invisible Library fantasy series, I ordered numbers 2 and 3: The Masked City and The Burning Page. The Masked City is set in an alt-Venice, despotic Council of Ten and all, in a world so heavy in chaos (vs. order) that it weakens Librarian Irene's apprentice, the (order oriented) dragon man Kai and almost poisons their human associate, the Victorian era Sherlock Holmes act-alike detective Vane, who will be plagued by the chaos taint he picks up in book 2 when he gets to book 3. City is about the kidnapping of Kai by a Fae husband and wife team seeking to use the kidnapping to drag Fae and dragons into a cosmos-rending war. Irene again saves the day but has to pay a penalty (again) for rashly crossing the Library's boundaries of proper (= cautious) behavior. The Burning Page is set, for the most part, in an alt-Napoleonic era Russia. Irene has to cure Vane of his chaos-infection, which is slowly but surely driving him mad. She has again (the first time was in The Invisible Library, 1) to battle against the rogue Librarian Alberich, powerful, dangerous, and vindictive toward Irene for having been foiled by her once before, as Alberich tries to destroy the entire Library.Again, there are Fae and dragons, vampires and werewolves, complicated doings and one after another close shave, but Irene, one of the most attractive and enjoyable heroines in modern fantasy fiction, never ever gives up. There's even romance, Irene's attempts to resist her attraction to not one but two desirable males, Kai and Vale.The better of these two books is The Masked City. For some reason, Irene's continuing battle with Alberich wears thin on me this time around. But the other characters -Kai and Vane, the debauched Fae lord Silver and creepy, scary Alberich-are winners, as is, especially and always, Irene.This is what I wrote in my review of the other two books in the series. It still holds true: "This is one of the best -and best humored-fantasy series I have come across in seventy years of reading them. Cogman can write, she can plot, and does milieu and atmosphere exceedingly well. If she continues this way, and it's clear she intends to write more of her Irene and Kai adventures, she could well become the P. G. Wodehouse of fantasy fiction, than which I have no higher praise."

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