Heh, I can't actually remember the introductory notes. Maybe I skipped them, or else they just fell into the big hole in my personal time and space that also eats explanations of Kantian philosophy, JavaScript syntax and memos about doing the ironing.
I remember liking but not loving the Invisible Library series. (Though I was impressed enough by it, especially the later books, to request it for Yuletide.) And I think I probably came away feeling a bit more positive about Scarlet than about IL book 1 – it was less meta and the protagonist felt more vulnerable than Irene, so there was more sense of hazard.
As with IL, the romance thread is dull, but that's okay -- it doesn't take up much page space.
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I remember liking but not loving the Invisible Library series. (Though I was impressed enough by it, especially the later books, to request it for Yuletide.) And I think I probably came away feeling a bit more positive about Scarlet than about IL book 1 – it was less meta and the protagonist felt more vulnerable than Irene, so there was more sense of hazard.
As with IL, the romance thread is dull, but that's okay -- it doesn't take up much page space.