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Lol what did I say? Caught immediately

Here we go, book 5. I took a break but I am mentally ready for another. I am sure I will love the adventure, but my prediction is the romance will fall flat (not the author's strength) and Irene will get recognised immediately (keeping low profile is not her strength).

She was not killed by her own greed, she was killed by dense brownies 😂

Ibrahim forgot he went paperless in the last book

Phone numbers aren't six digits, Liz

I'm calling it, it's Jill who did it

Ooo Paul's been murdering people for bitcoin

My god there are too many characters in this. Idk, but I just simply do not care for Joanna or Connie really. Even magic Bogdan and Chris have little to do anymore

I'm sorry, I still can't get over "Woyzek". It's like when JK Rowling came up with "Lechsinka" thinking it sounded vaguely Polish.

Authors, please. There are many real polish names, very googlable. They have all the consonants you could wish for, promise!

"Like my friend Woyzek"

Woyzek??? 😂 what's that?

I must say, Ron's family struggles are more interesting than the murder. I still don't get why they need to "get the codes", they're after the murderer? Unless like the previous books, the law-abiding pensioners will steal whatever the murderers were after and use it in some inane way.

Ok but why must they get into The Compound before the killer does?

Ok, I do not think dating scammers dabble in drug dealing

'In my business you hear a thing or two about love. I find it easy to replicate. It is largely a willing abandonment of logic'

'So I've got a dodgy cockney, a coke dealer, some old bird with a shooter and...'
'Joyce'
'And Joyce,' says Dom.
😂

No wonder I was having such a hard time with The Impossible Fortune! That's book 5 and I'm meant to be reading this one!

"...plastering being a skill that, in Bogdan's estimation, takes a wild dip about 30 miles west of Gdańsk"
it does though

I love Joyce, I wish she narrated more of the book

We're back to the "I kill you this, I kill you that" club! The idiotic names (Silver? Really?) club! Bogdan the magic Pole club!

Our girl is tired, she needs a holiday, library please?

Sm-ooth.

...and caught again 🤣 what was that whole sequence of cutting hair for and getting new clothes for?

BAM! What did I say? Immediately caught

"Then it's a good thing I'm planning not to get caught"

She'll get caught immediately, isn't she.

Oof series fatigue really setting in now. These 2 have negative chemistry I swear

Irene's personality: professional, harrowed, occasionally horny
Kai's personality: hot, possessive of Irene for 0 reason

"She should just stick to taking books in the future, rather than trying to make a fair exchange. Quicker, quieter, and less trouble with vampires"

Is the author for real? Irene can't manage quiet if her life depended on it. Oh look, another job going wrong because she is terrible at her job 🤣

Book 4 let's goooo

I'm not sure how the Library can maintain any kind of neutrality and pretend they're not more aligned with the dragons. Chaos is literally not allowed in the library and they accept dragon apprentices?

Irene seems to worry about her harem of men more than about her precious library. Honestly, I am disbelieving that she's a lover of books and not a total adrenaline junkie at this point

Oh look, the master spy got caught by the authorities immediately

Wait wait, the lady who had Irene kidnapped had her literature taken away, so were they trying to protect her from being contacted by Alberich? The plot thickens!