Book Review: Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith

Library of the Unwritten
by A.J. Hackwith (Download Audio)

If you have ever spent any significant amount of time either working in a library or around people who work in a library, this book will delight you. If you haven’t done either of those things, this book will still delight you, but maybe in a less specific way. A gloriously meta fantasy adventure follows Hell’s librarian and her assistants on an quest that traverses realms from Heaven, to Valhalla. Hackwith’s witty and quick writing is a pleasure to read, and their dry humor and genre-aware jokes will delight any book lover.

[Similar in style to Terry Pratchett, Garth Nix’s Abhorsen series, and Seanan McGuire‘s non-horror.]

[ publisher’s official Library of the Unwritten web page ] | [ official A.J. Hackwith web site ]

Recommended by Lane G.
Bennett Martin Public Library

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