The Dark Archive (The Invisible Library, #7)

by Genevieve Cogman

This was why Irene wasn’t keen on students. She didn’t like being empathetic. She would much rather be businesslike.

Anger would never make him rude; it’d be more likely to provoke icy courtesy.

Dear merciful heavens. I have a teenage Fae on my hands. One who feels she has a vocation to be an archetypal librarian. Irene wished that she believed in prayer. It would have been nice to have someone to ask for help.

Librarians paid for their use of the Language, their ability to travel between worlds via the Library, and their access to all its books. They paid with the coin of service.