The Dark Archive (The Invisible Library, #7)

by Genevieve Cogman

One couldn’t gloat at a corpse. The corpse simply wouldn’t appreciate it properly.

all of them seemed to be carrying potentially lethal weapons under their bulky overcoats. (Irene was guessing about the weapons’ lethal qualities, but given how the day was going, it seemed wildly optimistic to assume anything else.)

It would take a zeppelin loaded with high explosives to make a dent in this place. Irene really hoped that Lady Guantes didn’t have access to any zeppelins loaded with high explosives.

What must it be like to see a version of the person you loved degrade and die, multiple times? She thought of that happening to Kai – of losing him, regaining him in such a dreadful way then losing him again – and repressed a shudder.

‘The ferrets! The ferrets are loose!’

It was a sad commentary on Irene’s life that, on waking up in chains, her first thought was Oh no, not again.

She saw Kai and Catherine exchange similar exasperated looks, and made a mental note to discuss justifiable risks with them later. Because there was going to be a later. Oh yes.