Play Book Tag discussion

3.75 stars

This is book 2 in a series. Isaac is a librarian, but also a “libriomancer”. That means he can pull items out of books and use them, often magically. There are a group of libriomancers who call themselves Porters, lead by Gutenberg himself. When a wendigo is found by a couple of werewolves, murdered, Isaac and one of the local werewolves go to investigate, along with the help of Isaac’s dryad girlfriend, Lena, and Lena’s other love/girlfriend, Nidhi (also a psychiatrist) go to help find out what happened. This becomes bigger and bigger and ends in a bit of a “war” with magical metal insects, a ghost army, a vindictive father wanting to learn magic, the Chinese equivalent of libriomancers (though many of them have been dead for years, or trapped in books).

There is almost too much fantasy for me in this, but at the same time, I quite enjoyed it. I liked the dryad, Lena, and I love Isaac’s pet: a “fire-spider”, Smudge. I also love that Isaac is a librarian. The beginning of each chapter gives us Lena’s background. It was in italics and I often tend to skim parts like that, but I actually did pay attention to this story, as well.