Information is like water—without it you won’t live long, too much and you’ll drown. And there’s a difference between truth and information. Even correct information is not the same as truth—truth does not mislead—correct information bereft of context can be more dangerous than a lie.

Another book that I feel like I reviewed but somehow seem to have lost it.

Overall, I really liked how this series started. It’s such a cool idea, an eternal Library spanning through time–and even between worlds. And the story of two very different people, more different than they even imagined.

But then, as we went on, things got weirder and more complicated. More races. A sort of angelic battle at the heart of the Library. Messy time travel shenanigans. And perhaps, the end of all things. It’s certainly an end to the series.

“The library can make sure that nobody has a good excuse for forgetting what happens and striving to prevent repetition. But it cannot stop even that. People have to want to know. I wish I could tell you that free and easy access to information solves these problems—it doesn’t. People find their own wells of poison to drink from.

I think the ending could have been more and I think there was too much trying to fit into too little book (which is saying something; it’s not short). But overall, I still enjoyed reading it. If you read the second book, you owe it to yourself, it’s worth reading the third.

Onward!