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Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

Rachel Caine

Start date: September 1, 2015

Finish date: September 30, 2015

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Oct 03, 2015 Stephanie (Reading is Better With Cupcakes) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Imagine living in a world where the Library is pretty much in charge. They have the only access to real books and everyone else only has access to special digital copies that don't really exist. The access only lasts for so long and then after that, the words are deleted. Each time someone wants to read the book, the words have to be created through a very complicated way, using Alchemists, and that way is diminishing.

Then, since books are limited and hard to get a hold of, there is a group of t ...more

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