![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More difficult, Jess feels incredible attachment to printed books, and is horrified by the perverted desires of a group of buyers who buy the printed material simply for the privilege to tear out the costly, rare pages and eat them. From a young age, teenaged Jess Brightwell has been running books for his ruthless father to clients and couriers: a risky, dangerous job that has already claimed the life of an older brother. For generations the Brightwell family business has served as a front for an expansive and networked system of book smuggling. Where personal ownership of something is forbidden, a black market trade evolves to fill the desires of those who can afford it. Ownership of printed books is illegal, but Library-approved materials are ‘mirrored’ from the original texts through alchemy by Obscurists to personal blank ‘book’ instruments of Library design called Codexes. The cultural influence and political power of the Library is significant, holding absolute control over written knowledge. In Ink and Bone, Rachel Caine uses this alternate history speculation to craft a universe where the “Great Library” has survived and flourished through the centuries, expanded with satellite institutions around the world. Imagine if the Royal Library of Alexandria had not been destroyed in flames. ![]()
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