The Secret Chapter (The Invisible Library, #6)

by Genevieve Cogman

“Irene, as always, remains one of my favorite heroines. . . . Cogman has a way of combining a unique idea with intriguing characters into a story you can’t put down.” —Novel Knight Book Reviews

Stories matter—telling them, sharing them, preserving them, changing them, learning from them, and escaping with and through them.

We learn about ourselves and the world that we live in through fiction just as much as through facts.

We note that the Library has not had fire alarm drills for the last two hundred years. This is because we found the two default responses unhelpful. These being “running away screaming” or “resigning yourself to death while clutching your favourite books.”

It was true that powerful Fae accumulated stories about themselves as seabird perches accumulated guano.

Irene was a strong believer that if you could get people accustomed to obeying simple orders, under the guise of suggestions, they’d then do what they were told later when in horrible danger.

There is no such thing as genuine truth, only received truth. The winners write the history books in all cultures, as it serves their advantage.

But have you ever been in a situation where you felt you had to do something about the status quo? That your ethics demanded it? Or don’t Librarians care about that sort of thing?”

It was true. Those in power were able to dictate what “truth” was passed down—and their children then grew up believing it.