The plan was to hop a train to Oslo, hang out at a coffee shop, and connect my personal archive, Infinity, to the Internet. Yes, completely disregarding the well-established fact that magic and technology didn’t mix. At all.
I was also hoping to browse as many bookstores as I could before my younger brother’s patience ran out. Unfortunately, the five-year-old fledgling dragon was better known for his exuberant — and ultimately destructive — tendencies rather than his attention span.
I almost pulled it all off. Almost proved that my position as Archivist of the Modern World wasn’t just an empty title.
Then I got summoned — by the most powerful beings in the magical world. And when the guardian dragons made a request, no one denied them. Not even a lesser dragon.
Not even if it tore me away from everything I’d ever known — and the one person I couldn’t leave behind.
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Awakening Infinity is a prequel novel in the Archivist series, which is set in the same universe as the Dowser, Oracle, Reconstructionist, Amplifier, and Misfits of the Adept Universe series.
Reading order of the Archivist Awakening Infinity (Archivist 0) Invoking Infinity (Archivist 1)
Meghan Ciana Doidge writes tales of true love conquering all, even death. Though sometimes the love is elusive, the vampires and werewolves come out to play in the daylight, and bloody mayhem ensues.
Another start to a winning series! I love how some of our favorites drop in, but Dusk and Sisu are definitely different characters from before. Plus who doesn’t want to learn about the Adept across the pond? I loved the sibling relationship between Dusk and Sisu- it’s rare to have siblings in a book that don’t just argue!
This book was painfully slow to start. I had a hard time warming up to the main character. Eventually I got into the tempo of the author and was ready to get rolling. Being gifted with a new quest, estate and trunk full of dragon treasure will be so much fun. Being related to the Godfrey witches ( insert eye roll) will have it's own perks. Getting to renovated the palace and tame the property is so exciting! Not to mention the new Museum to archive! This is so going to be fun. Thanks Meghan! 😍
I love this author and am so excited about this new series. This book basically sets the scene for the rest of the series and introduces new characters set in the Dowser world. Well written and an enjoyable read. Cannot wait until the next book. Highly recommend.
I discovered Meghan Ciana Doidge during quarantine and have since devoured everything she's written. This is a novella setting up her new archivist series, and I'm so excited for it! This was a fantastic beginning, and I can't wait to revisit these characters in the future. Definitely don't start with this one. Highly suggest using the author's recommend reading order for the series which intermingles several series/trilogies within the same world.
This prologue is a bit tedious to get through. Lots of information and almost zero action but it’s a great introduction to this world and worth reading for the rest of the series.
As always MCD sweeps us away with another brilliant beginning novel to a new and epic series in her Adept Universe. What more can we ask for?! Well glimpses of all our favorite characters and give us new and more amazing characters to go crazy over. Love Sisu and Dusk.
Dusk is a very young dragon. (She's 25, and about as mature as a Human 25-year-old. She's 75 years from being considered fully adult. She has Human form.) She is an Archivist, which is to say she's a book wyrm, with magic particularly oriented toward libraries and the like.
At the start of the book she and her baby brother sneak off their estate, to Oslo, and she tries to connect her Archive to the internet. (They are the only dragons on the estate. This is 'sneak' as in, any dragon who knew of this would consider it a Bad Idea.) The results are inconclusive: Her Archive is mostly-somnolent for the rest of this book. There are clues that it will become far more active and aware in the next book.
The trip is derailed by a summons. The Guardians (the most powerful dragons in existence) upend her life and order her to move to Dublin and live among Humans - well, Human witches - pretending to be one of them. They don't waste explanations on her, and it isn't as if she has a choice.
The book is all setup for the series. (This is acknowledged by numbering it as book 0.) It's all about introducing the characters and the milieu. But both are charming
This book is a spinoff of an earlier series, but not having read that series is not an impediment. The book isn't labeled YA, but it has that feel - which is also not an impediment. I'm going to enjoy this series.
Dusk is an archivist, living separate from the mundane world with her tome she's nicknamed Infinity being a magical book that can absorb information. In the absence of her mother who has been away on her own adventure, who knows where and what place in time, she's been left to care for her five year old brother- the son of a dragon guardian. But when an emergency vacancy opens up she finds herself the only archivist available. She's tasked by the guardians to set up base among the non-magical even though for her kind she's underage.
It is not a unanimous consensus. But no one has more doubts than Dusk herself. She's curious for her adventure, but it is quite a responsibility. And her brother might choose to live in the magical comforts he'd find with his father instead of pretending to be human. That above all, the last tie to true family, is almost as daunting as not knowing where her mother is.
This book is completely about setup. While I had expected at least a minor plot, I found that I enjoyed it all the same. It does a great job of presenting the different characters with a good taste of their personalities. I also find the mystical world and its variations of those not-normal-human , the twist of what is mortal lore and actual, absolutely intriguing. The sibling relationship is absolutely heartwarming.
A cute, sweet, cozy little fantasy with a dash of character finding their way towards their own purpose and identity outside of what is just obligated.
Another branch in the “Godfrey” magical series to eagerly gobble up! I admit to being disappointed that there are no new Jade Godfrey adventures on the horizon, but the author is making up for that with many new stories featuring characters we have met before, and some brand new ones like in here. I do like the main character here, like Jade and the other female characters in these books she is a strong woman with a very real and believable life, even if it is filled with magic and magical beings. I am very intrigued by the hints and mystery and promises of what’s to come, it has every hallmark of a great and wondrous adventure and I hope it lasts a long time!! The only thing I don’t like, and even that is too strong, maybe just not love, is the Dusk’s little brother. I’m sorry, but he comes off as somewhat of a brat, and even taking into consideration his circumstances, if I were her I’d be a bit more disciplined with him, he is quite precocious and given what he is that could be dangerous. But that’s just me, and it in no way takes away from my enjoyment of the story and my eagerness for more. So dive into this one, and enjoy it!!
Having read some of Meghan’s other books I wanted a book to read a chapter a night in bed and thought why not. Unfortunately, like all good ideas it turned out not quite right. Dusk and her little brother entice you into their lives - how, by using the wonderful gift of words, the magic that brings words to life. Happy, sad, lonely love everything that you want to experience is here. The magic of writing is a wonderful gift we humans have, the magic of sharing those words via the www is a recent gift that we should encompass and share with each other. Yes, “Awakening Infinity” is truly a magical gift of words that encourage you to read more. Thank you Meghan, long may you magical gift of wording be around for us to treasure and share. Now the magic of the www will bring me book 2. Pleasant reading to you all.
I'm a little bit obsessive when it comes to a series, so when I saw that this was a "book 0" in the new spinoff of the adept world, I added it to my kindle.
This short book was tough. It gives you all new characters only loosely in this existing world of characters, but then the details just keep coming. I had a hard time getting invested in Dusk and Sisu (who now, 2 books in - I love!), and learning the intricacies of the archive, archivists, and the family dynamics was a little bit much to swallow easily. Maybe it's just me, but I had to really drag myself through this story. As a person who powered through (and then rapidly gobbled up the next 2 books), this story does answer some lingering questions you may have in the series, but maybe it's better placed as a book#1.1, when you've already developed a certain fondness for Dusk's logical mind?
Dusk a wonderful character. A bright beautiful woman 😉 Dragon.
Sisu a precocious five year old, Dragon 😮
Infinity, Dusks personal archive, which she wants to connect to the internet. 😮😮
Thing's do not go as planned, then she's summoned to stand before the Guardian Dragons, she's worried that she's in deep trouble. But things take a weird turn and she ends up packing her and Sisu's lives up and moving to Ireland, undercover as a witch.
I read this book first via Meghan's blog, then purchased it and forgot to review it 🙄🙄
This book is a fantastic addition to the world she's created from that fantastic imagination.
Buy ALL of her books 😁😁😁 you'll not be disappointed 💖💖
My only complaint with this book is that it ended. It felt like it ended too soon; I wanted more! I realize there is a sequel but I really wasn't ready to have read the last page.
I love the way the author adds branches to the "family tree" , linking new characters to old familiar friends and letting the new characters find their way with a touch of guidance.
I love that the illustration of Dusk and Sisu were included in the book. I have aphantasia, the inability to visualize so I rely on illustrations to really "see" what a character looks like. I was thinking that I would need to go look up the illustrations and I flipped the page and there they were!
Now to read the next book, slowly as I know a 3rd will be a while to come.
I very much enjoyed this book, it is in the Dowser series Dragons, werewolves, vampires, mages and cupcakes, while reading i always get craving for chocolate or cakes
Below is the reading order though you can read this before but nice to read in order 1. Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic, Dowser 1 2. Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic, Dowser 2 3. Treasures, Demons, and Other Black Magic, Dowser 3 4. I See Me, Oracle 1 5. Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic, Dowser 4 6. Maps, Artifacts, and Other Arcane Magic, Dowser 5 7. I See You, Oracle 2 8. Artifacts, Dragons, and Other Lethal Magic, Dowser 6 9. I See Us, Oracle 3 10. Catching Echoes (Reconstructionist 1) 11. Tangled Echoes (Reconstructionist 2) 12. Unleashing Echoes (Reconstructionist 3) 13. Champagne, Misfits, and Other Shady Magic (Dowser 7) 14. Misfits, Gemstones, and Other Shattered Magic (Dowser 8) 15. Graveyards, Visions, and Other Things That Byte (Dowser 8.5) 16. Gemstones, Elves, and Other Insidious Magic (Dowser 9) 17. The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0) – bundled with Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5) 18. Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1) 19. Bonds and Broken Dreams (Amplifier 2) 20. Mystics and Mental Blocks (Amplifier 3) 21. Idols and Enemies (Amplifier 4) 22. Misplaced Souls (Misfits of the Adept Universe 1) 23. Awakening Infinity (Archivist 0)
A new portion of characters to interact in the universe created by Meghan Ciana Doidge.
Dusk is a dragon who is archivist and her young brother is a son of one of the nine guardians of Meghan Ciana Doidge's universe. Dusk is asked to interact with the witches, and asked to pose as a Godfrey witch and is given an estate in Dublin Ireland. Her mother is currently involved with her own archive, so she brings her brother with her which sets up the start of another series and I can't wait for the books.
Urban fantasy. As this is an ‘book 0’, I’m presuming it is an introduction to a series.
The start is fun as a twenty five year old dragon archivist, along with her rather excitable five year old brother in tow, opens her storage entity, the ‘Infinity’ in the title, to the expanse of the modern day internet. What could possibly go wrong? Possibly a lot, probably.
The story then changes track for a while as we are introduced to the main characters, and the dragon magic world. The dragons in question are human form, but have dragon magic. Which comes in different forms.
The young archivist finds herself in trouble when she is given, sort of forced upon her, a task. Which may be the opportunity she has wanted for some time.
Lots of things are shown to the reader, to be expanded in future books. An interesting introduction then to an endearing fantasy series.
Thank you to Meghan Ciana Doidge for the audiobook ARC. The views expressed are all mine.
This is a very good prequel to The Archivist series. When a young dragon archivist is summoned and given a job that changes her life in most every way, it is intriguing. I enjoyed her younger brother and love the fact that she is his guardian. I think she would seem very cold without him. I'm interested to learn about her parentage. I have many questions actually. I'm eager for the next book in the series.
The story flows and I want to see where it takes me. It is a good addition to the world Meghan Ciana Doidge has introduced me to.
I would say anyone who enjoys a good story would enjoy this. 5 year old brother and his older sister, different fathers, mom is missing, probably doing a bit of time traveling. Oh, and they are dragons pretending to be witches.
I’m a huge fan of Meghan Ciana Doidge’s books and her world of Adepts and Dragons. I’m loving this new series set in that world. Dusk and Sisu are both interesting characters that I’m looking forward to getting to know better. I love how their story is entwining with characters that I already know and love from other books. I’m going to jump right into the next book!
Dusk is a magical archivist just trying to do her job while chasing down her little brother who also happens to be a baby dragon. Things go sideways fast when guardian dragons yank her into a bigger magical mess she didn’t ask for.
This novella is packed with cool worldbuilding, sibling chaos, and snappy writing. It’s light on romance but big on magic, mystery, and what the heck is going on energy in the best way.
In principle, the universe that Meghan Doile creates in this novel is interesting, although the effort to fit all the pieces together is so intense that it ends up being a very heavy novel. I understand that she has to fit the pieces of the puzzle together so that the characters make sense and the plot is plausible, but it becomes extremely tiresome because practically nothing happens during the course of the novel. It's the prequel to the series, so we'll see how it develops.
I so love books by Meghan Ciana Doidge!! I've read them all. Her characters are awesome....ALL OF THEM!! Her worlds are magical and I want to spend time in them. Honestly this author should have movies made from her books! Steven Spielberg, heads up! The next J.K. Rowling is here!! In Meghan Ciana Doidge. Her books get 5 stars every time, every one!!
As expected another riveting pull you into the pages story from one of my new favorite authors
I am so utterly pleased that the archivists are coming to life - It’s a rare pleasure when a book is so rounded and so carefully and thoughtfully put together that the characters come to life and for me this is that it is wonderful
DNF. Didn’t really begin, either. I’ve enjoyed all the books in this universe to one extent or another, but couldn’t get past the first chapter of the protagonist’s inner monologue. And so much unnecessary environment description. The clincher was the unrealistic level of maturity ascribed to the 5-year old. Just couldn’t buy it. Life is too short for boring books
The voice this author uses in each portion of this connected series is so different that it almost seems there are different authors. The dragon guardians are back and we get a peek into their internal politics, which whet the appetite for finding out what they are up to.
I’ve never heard of this book or series until I saw it through FaRoDays free e-book giveaway last December. It’s a great start to the series. I loved the fact that the main character took up an artifact job in Ireland and started a new life to protect her brother.
If you love magic or dragons, this book is for you.
As always, Meghan Ciana Doidge sucks me right in and I have to pace myself so I don't finish the story too soon. Luckily, she is one of the most prolific authors out there and I don't have to wait too long before the next book comes out!
Great new characters and I love hearing about and interacting with some characters that are well known. I love this new path and storyline in Meghan’s adept universe.
This new series is already making me love the new characters. Dusk and Sisu sibling interactions are sincere and loving. The new adventure takes place mostly in Ireland with a batch of new magical beings and mysteries. I'm excited to read where the future books will take us.