I particularly loved Scholar Wolfe because he was incredibly complex, at first you think he’s just an ass but as the story goes on and more is revealed about his character, you realise that he’s a lot more complicated than he first seems. I really loved the characters! There was such diversity in this book which I loved, you have lots of different nationality kids in the library which I thought was really cool, you have kids from England, Wales, Spain, USA, Egypt, Arabia, so many different places, it was so nice to read a book with a really diverse cast of characters. I also felt like things were phrased slightly strangely and a few times sentences seemed to be missing words, this could have been the writing style although I feel like it’s more likely to be an editing problem and I only really had a problem with this in the early chapters of the book, it disappeared later on, so it’s probably just a slight editing problem. I would almost rather that the book had more chapters and those chapters were shorter, than fewer but longer chapters. I think the fact that the chapters were a little long also contributed to the fact that I didn’t get into the book straight away, I mean 20-30 pages is a little long for a chapter. It did take me a while to get into the book, I felt like the excitement didn’t really start until Jess arrived in Alexandria, but that’s kind of understandable as the first few chapters were just about setting up Jess as a character and an introduction to his family and his world. Those who control the Great Library believe that knowledge is more valuable than any human life-and soon both heretics and books will burn.

but even as he forms friendships and finds his true gifts, he begins to unearth the dark secrets of the greatest, most revered institution in the world. Jess Brightwell is the son of a black market book smuggler, sent to the Library to compete for a position as a scholar. In a world where the ancient Great Library of Alexandria was never destroyed, knowledge now rules the world: freely available, but strictly controlled. Sometimes though, I get excited about a book and it turns out it’s not as cool as it sounds, I’m happy to say that this wasn’t the case with this book. First off, the concept is incredible, the idea of a world where The Great Library of Alexandria survived is really cool, so immediately I was very excited about reading this book because the concept sounded so cool. I really loved this book! It started off a little shaky for me, the first couple of chapters dragged a little, but once I got into it, which was around chapter 4 or 5, I really started to enjoy it. Book: Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1)

Ink and bone the great library