I should have known Hackwith would never do such a thing to us. In my experience, the middle of a trilogy is the entry most likely to be composed of filler, to be diffuse, or to be a bridge rather than a story of its own.
I absolutely adored The Library of the Unwritten but was a bit nervous to jump into the second volume of the series. The infiltration is only temporarily arrested by the quick thinking of Probity, another muse, one who doesn’t have Claire’s best interests at heart. For her part, Claire, while trying to gather a sample of the ink, is infected by it. The team is forced back together when a mysterious lake of ink appears in the Arcane Wing, calling the damsels from the Unwritten wing to drown themselves in it, whispering in too many voices to count and calling to Claire. Assisting Brevity is Hero, and exiled from his own book and helping Claire is Ramiel, the fallen angel who hadn’t realized there was any further to tumble.Įveryone feels ashamed and guilty and, rather than talking to one another about it, has retreated to their respective corners so as not to make things worse… when, in fact, that is the very thing making everything worse. When The Archive of the Forgotten opens, we find that Claire has relinquished her position as librarian to the muse Brevity and that Claire herself has become the Anarchist.
… the Arcanist, guardian of dangerous mystical objects, a demon one thought one could trust might attempt a coup and a great many of those unwritten books might burn… Were such a thing to occur, were the librarian to be absent too long well, then… That librarian makes sure the stories don’t escape and that, should they happen to do so, they’re recaptured quickly, quietly, and most certainly before they make contact with their author. Hackwith’s The Library of the Unwritten, we learned that unfinished stories live in the Unwritten Wing of Hell’s Library, cared for by a (usually) carefully trained librarian.
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