This is an adventure story and it's like Indiana Jones meets the Shadowhunters with leprechauns thrown in the mix. I did enjoy the book, but I found many elements of the style very jarring. It reads like a YA comic book in terms of the action and the humour and the overpowered superheroes, except when obscure, highbrow vocabulary is used. The scenes seem to break and the narrative shifts rather abruptly, and there are odd uses of rewinding scenes to see what happens to other characters with an immersion breaking, "A few minutes before..." line.

The plot licked along at a decent pace, but I found the many, many throwaway references to earlier adventures and backstories really frustrating. These felt like they were teasing me and I often found myself wishing I was reading that story instead of this one. After reading I found this was the third book in a series, which I wish I'd known before I started.

The characters are great, really interesting and I love the whole setup with the library. There were also a surprising amount of laughs. Though I did struggle with the choppy style, I would like to read more in this series.

Loved the tv series with Noah Wyle and Bob Newhart. Macmillian Tor Publishing gave me a free digital copy in exchange for a honest review. This is perfect reading for Halloween. Fans of Mists of Avalon will like this novel.

"The Librarians and the Pot of Gold is an original novel based on the hit TNT television show The Librarians, by New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox.

For millennia, the Librarians have secretly protected the world by keeping watch over dangerous magical relics. Cataloging and safeguarding everything from Excalibur to Pandora’s Box, they stand between humanity and those who would use the relics for evil."

The show must go on! Even if it's in book form now...

I have to admit, I had a difficult time with this book, as it seemed to jump around and I personally found the plot somewhat hard to follow, and the backgrounds of the characters hard to understand. I'm hoping as the series goes on, the gaps get filled making a compelling concept more of a must read series!

I liked watching the show so when i saw this book on netgalley i wanted to read it. I really enjoyed it. It was fast and full of action. You need to see at least one episode to understand this book. Because there aren't any backstory about characters. But it was really fun to read. Thanks netgalley for this arc.

Having watched the series, it was great to read an adventure with the same characters. Fast paced and with plenty of action, your are transported between the Emerald Isle and the USA and all that Irish folklore. This is a great read and perfect for that weekend escapism.

Note: I received an e-galley provided by the publisher through NetGalley. Thank you, Tor-Forge!

If you haven't watched an episode of The Librarians in your life, you might not quite get what's going on in The Librarians and the Pot of Gold. To really understand the characters, it helps to have a grounding in the television series. Now, that being said, having watched the show, this book is a lot of fun. The set-up also feels like an episode of the show. There's a hint of things to come at the beginning followed by a side adventure for the librarians, and then the main plot kicks in involving leprechauns, mistaken identities, some big bads that will be very familiar, and some across the global travel. The side adventure is fairly inconsequential other than being a little bit more drawn out than need be. However, once the main plot about a young woman being haunted by a banshee kicks in, there's a lot to enjoy as long as one doesn't overthink things. Like any episode of the series, every character's strengths comes into focus in just the right way to move the plot along and allow them to shine. Even Jenkins has his role in this. If you're looking for a St. Patrick's themed tale with some zaniness, look no further! I would have liked a bit more character development for the side characters, but on the whole a pretty fun book for the fans to enjoy.

Already the third addition to these tie-in novels to the show The Librarians. In case you don’t know The Librarians tv show is based on the movies The Librarian and its sequels who tell the story of Flynn, the librarian. A librarian who protects the world and make sure priceless artifacts are kept safe. In the tv show he gets three more librarians to help him out.

I was excited to read this. While I am certainly not up to date on the tv show as long as you know the basic concept of the characters and the idea you are quite set to enjoy these books. The book is set up like an episode in the tv show and does not move away from that. It is in a way a strength because what you see is what you get, but I also think it is its downfall. Downfall in the sense that there is little surprise or depth here. There were quite a few scenes where I thought there was room and intention to build on things more from the show character wise but then the author never does. I suppose it is hard to write characters that aren’t your own and that still need to fit in with the show.

The book starts off with another mission that has nothing to do with the plot of the book and felt like it took way too long to wrap up. It took up 50+ pages of a book that isn’t even 300 pages long and it made it feel like the book took forever to start. I thought that was a shame. There could have been more room to flesh out certain elements of the plot. For the most part I enjoyed the plot but there were inconsistencies with history. The fiddle in the 5th century for instance which didn’t exist back then I believe. It is a shame considering the nature of the job of these charactes... I hope that is caught before publication.

The book is set in Ireland for portions of the plot around St. Patricks Day and is heavily influenced by how popular media views the Irish, leprechauns and St. Patricks Day. There were some deviations from that like the role Padric played in the 5th century. I would have liked to have seen more things like that or for a book with this kind of place to focus more in Ireland than it did. It could have created a lovely atmosphere.

Even so for fans of the show this is a quick and nice read in between episodes.

The Librarians and the Pot of Gold by Greg Cox is based on a television show and some of it reminded me of James Bond movies:

The initial sequence is fast and dangerous and has nothing to do with the rest of the plot
The action and setting are vivid
Dialogue is short and snappy
People don’t always think before they act
Overall I enjoyed the book despite being completely unaware of the television show. The Librarians and the Pot of Gold references past adventures over and over, which is a little annoying, but readers who follow the show or have read earlier novels will likely enjoy.

This is a very fast read, two to three hours at most. The authors don’t explain the characters or back story, presumably we’re supposed to be familiar already, but it’s easy enough to pick up and follow. The good guys are obvious and the bad guys even more obvious, and there are plenty of secondary characters to add interest.

I would like to read more novels, written with a bit more serious intent, that use the Library concept.

I’m not sure I’ll read any further books in the series but do recommend The Librarians and the Pot of Gold if you enjoy fantasy with lots of action and color.

Confession time. I have never seen the TV show "The Librarians." So I started this book blind. I'm sure that true fans of the show would find this a nice tie in but this book did not register well with me for some reason. There were too many moving parts for me to keep up. Something about a pot of gold and the Serpent Brotherhood.

This book is appropriate for ages 13 and up for mild violence and language.

I received this arc from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The book starts off with the gang on the hunt for sheet music written by the Opera Ghost. Yup, the Phantom. It's a lot of fun.
Then the action switches to a bouncy adventure involving Chicago bars, leprechauns, and a prism.
One of my favorite things about this book is that I could actually see the characters interacting as if on a screen while I read it.
I absolutely loved the way Cassandra's brain powers were explained.

The Librarians and the Pot of Gold is another thrilling adventure. Fans of the TV show will devour this page-turning romp through Irish Folklore. The action is fast-paced and the characters are true.

This is entertaining, and it does what I expected it to do; it's reasonably faithful to the TV series - which is cheesy, but in a way I mostly enjoy - and tells an enjoyable story in a brisk, old-fashioned pulpy style.

By "old-fashioned" I mean that it's adjective-heavy, and has a tendency to "said bookisms" (people "exposit" and "react" rather than just saying things). Some of the sentences, at least in the pre-publication version I read from Netgalley, are long and meandering, and there are a few glaring anachronisms; most notably, the leprechaun in the fifth century is already wearing traditional 18th-century Irish garb, and playing a fiddle (invented more than a thousand years later). There are signs, too, of the writing being done in a hurry, which hopefully will be fixed before publication.

Don't expect literature. Do expect pretty much what you'd get from an episode of the show.

This is the third, and possibly the last (since the series has been cancelled) of Cox's original novels based on the TNT fantasy series THE LIBRARIANS. In 441 AD, the Librarians' deadliest enemies, the Serpent Brotherhood, led by the sinister Lady Sibella, has tried to wrest a pot of gold from a reluctant leprechaun and sacrifice an innocent infant to their malevolent cause. With the help of a Librarian, his Guardian, and the man who would later become Saint Patrick, Sibella was destroyed and the plot thwarted. Now a new leader, Max Lambton, a amoral Englishman who has taken over the Serpent Brotherhood with a curious partner who can create magical objects, wishes to finish the job Sibella began. It's up to Eve Baird, Guardian; Librarians Jacob Stone, Cassandra Cillian, and Ezekiel Jones; plus the caretaker of the Library Annex, Jenkins (Flynn Carsen is missing in action in this outing), to stop him.

With the action revolving around St. Patrick's Day, the plot moves swiftly from Ireland to Paris (where the Librarians face off against the Phantom of the Opera) to Oregon to Chicago and even to an colony of leprechauns near the Annex. The plot, however, isn't quite as tight as the previous two. There is one character who appears whom you almost immediately guess who the person is. I was also quite disappointed that there was seemingly no way to save another character, who seemed promising and might prove an interesting project for Jenkins. However, the entire book is worthy of a LIBRARIANS episode as Cox works his own magic on the familiar characters. Once again Cox does a great job making each character sound just like his or her television counterpart; you can hear John Larroquette speak when you read Jenkins' lines.

Great stuff, especially for series' fans.

After a fight in France, the Librarians are quickly sent to Ireland to investigate an historical site that brings them on another adventure. Full of clever uses of Irish folklore and history, the dangers of having a mansion with a moat, and joy of relaxing at an Irish-themed pub, Cox does a fantastic job in this tie-in novel. The POVs Jenkins and Cassandra had was tightly done and individualized in particular (ex: Cassandra’s unique way of seeing math and magic, Jenkin’s long history of being a knight), giving fans an intimate look at favorite characters. Eve, Ezekiel, and Stone were also done justice, and as were the nods to their adventures in the TV series.

While the constant head-hopping made it sometimes difficult to follow the plot, Cox wrote an action-packed story with enough twists to keep readers entertained and wanting more.

I've received the arc from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

The Librarians and the Pot of Gold by Greg Cox, A very nice Tv Show to Book adaptation. Having been a fan of the show for a while, I felt that Cox captured the attitudes and personalities of the characters very well. If you are a fan of the series I believe you will like this book!

Character voices were spot-on, which made me realize how very often Ezekiel says "mate." The Serpent Brotherhood is always a great opponent, though I did find this particular leader to be lacking. As Stone said, he's no Dulaque. There were enough twists to this story that while some seemed obvious others I missed until the very last moment which made for a satisfying read. Good tie-in novels are fun and this book was quite a bit of fun.

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