The Lost Plot is book 4 in the Invisible Library series by Genevieve Cogman. This series has moments of great fun for lovers of fantasy, libraries, dragons, Fae, and strong female leads.

In Cogman's world, Librarians can work a sort of magic by speaking the Language. They travel into alternate time periods and versions of our world to find rare and alternate copies of books. Irene Winters is a Librarian with a dragon apprentice and a Victorian detective friend. She gets involved in a remarkable amount of intrigue as she goes about her book finding duties.

In The Lost Plot, Irene and her assistant head to Prohibition-era New York and are thrust into the middle of a political fight with dragons, mobsters, and Fae. In a 1920s-esque New York, Prohibition is in force, fedoras, flapper dresses, and tommy guns are in fashion, and intrigue is afoot.

The tension between the Fae and the dragons adds some spice, Irene is a resourceful and intelligent lead, and there is a nice balance between character interaction and action. I really enjoyed the 1920s gangster setting of The Lost Plot.

The romantic tension and hints of a love triangle are by far the least interesting aspects of this otherwise fabulous series. I wish the author would drop the romance and concentrate on the fun.

I read an advance reader copy of The Lost Plot. It will be released on January 8, 2018, and the Galesburg Public Library will own it in print and as an ebook. If you want to get started on this fantasy series, The Invisible Library, book 1, is available at the library.

Genevieve Cogman vivid imagination continues to enchant me in The Lost Plot, the fourth book in the  Invisible Library series. Dragons, betrayal and multiple identities lead to interesting events as Librarian Irene Winters looks to thwart an attempt that may have dire consequences for the library. Every word spoken must count in The Lost Plot delivering non-stop action and entertainment.

This one is my favorite so far. Start at the beginning of the series, but don't miss this fantastical library and the adventurous librarians who rescue books from all sorts of worlds - some quite ordinary, while others are filled with Fae or Dragons or both.

I really love this series, it's a fun adventure read but it feels the overarching plot is being stretched thin.

I love this series. It is always inventive, funny, and fun.

Cogman did it again... another great entry in the Invisible Library series with a lot of growth from Kai and Irene while keeping their banter and wit. I recommend the series as a whole and this installment in particular. I can't wait for the next already!

The fourth volume of <i>The Invisible Library </i> series is comfort food of the highest quality. The previous books have built in a crescendo of Fae villians and high chaos world hijinks to a looming Big Bad in the form of a Librarian-turned-to-wickedness. <i>The Lost Plot </i> steps back and breathes. There are still capers, but the story focuses more how Irene must balance the competing needs of Library neutrality, Dragon court intrigue, humans on the specific Roaring 20s world, and one Fae involved as an assistant to a mob boss. Though that doesn't sound much calmer than normal, it gave me confidence that this series could run indefinitely without running out of interesting stories to tell, or burning through reader goodwill.

What I love is how Cogman keeps true to her characters.

It's comforting to read this knowing that Irene is going to let curiosity get the best of her once again and get way more involved in things than she should. It's reassuring to know that Kai is going to be the rational one to attempt, yet fail to stop her but stick by her side to the end.

I don't know if I thought the prohibition era was a great setting, I don't feel like it made an impact on the plot in the least so I'm curious as to why Cogman picked that particular era. I will say it was interesting to see Irene come out of her shell a little more and be more "bossy" but there were other ways that could have been demonstrated beside being set in America during the Prohibition.

This fourth book in this series might just be the best. Taking place in Chicago in the 1930's, the book is populated by gangsters, policemen, blackmail, kidnapping, and lots of dragons. Action packed and fast paced this is a great addition to this series.

Once again we enter the world of The Library, protector of not only books, but of worlds. In the delicate balance between the forces of Chaos (the Fae) and the forces of Order (Dragons) librarians keep the alternate worlds from tipping too much one way or the other. And try to stay out of the way of each. In this newest book in the series, Genevieve Cogman sends her heroine Irene to an alternate world where a version of Prohibition New York City is the scene of gangsters, cops, a non-traditional gun moll, and dueling dragons. Irene lies, schemes, plots, flees, scrambles, and brazens her way out of scrape after scrape, somehow never quite losing her sense of purpose and her loyalty to The Library and those that she cares for.

This series just keeps getting better and better with each new book. This time we come to our side of the pond in New York City. An alternative version of it set during the Roaring 20's with prohibition and gangsters front and center. And of course dragons. And Fae. And our favorite Librarian and her trusty assistant! Irene and Kai are such great characters and I love the how they interact. This time they face their toughest challenge yet with the future of the library at stake as Irene gets drawn into Dragon politics. Action, adventure, and plenty of humor ensue up to the ending that changes everything! I can't wait to see where the story goes next.

I adore this series and not just because I'm a librarian. Genevieve Cogman writes the perfect blend of mystery and fantasy. She's witty and wonderful. You could start here...but do yourself a favor and read them all.

Finally, the long-awaited fourth book in the Invisible Library series is the best so far!

Per the series standard, The Lost Plot is a thrill-packed action adventure. The pacing is fast, with rare chances to breathe. It is difficult to put down.

Irene Winters is at the center the series, incorruptible, strong-willed, and full of initiative. Irene is badass, compassionate, capable, resourceful and loyal. She feels fear, but overcomes it, or uses it to her advantage.

In The Lost Plot, Irene visits a world reminiscent of 1920s big town USA. Speakeasies, mobsters, turf wars and, of course, dragons. Most of the story is spent in New York City, and the hectic, vibrant, and often overwhelming atmosphere is conveyed expertly by the author’s writing.

Vale is not present for most of the book, which did not bother me too much. I do like Vale, but I fell in love with Kai when we met him in the first book. And Kai is all over this book.

Would recommend starting with the first in the series, and continuing through the series in order: before reading The Lost Plot.
1) The Invisible Library
2) The Masked City
3) The Burning Page
4) The Lost Plot
Very Highly Recommended

The drama continues for Irene and Kai as they try to gather books for the Library while also staying out of trouble and politics. After being visited by another dragon, Irene, becomes concerned for the fate of the library and what the future may hold for her career. What starts as a mission to discover the truth and find a "rogue" Librarian, turns into a political situation between the dragons, fae, the Library, and 1920's New York gangsters and cops.

The Lost Plot was filled with such high-stakes and was action-packed throughtout. I read this within a day and I was completely lost in the pages of the story. I think this is my favourite installment of the Invisible Library series. The setting was exciting being set in a 1930s America. It's wonderful to read what Genevieve has come up with having visited several other cities in the previous installments.

There were lots of Dragons in this book and I was thrilled that we got to see so many of them and learned more of the Dragon poltitics. It was quite insane, especially toward the end at the final showdown. There was also a nice scene regarding a haircut and the scene at the end which left me on an emotional high.

That said, The Lost Plot was a race against time and the series just keeps getting better as the books go by.

Kai and Irene are certainly an excellent team – and I am really looking forward to the final book in the series next year.