If I wasn’t initially sure why Hero didn’t travel alone, I was quickly glad he hadn’t. Some fast-talking sleight of tongue later (so to speak), Hero embarks on an odd-couple road trip with Ramiel in search of lore held in other Wings, granting us tantalising glimpses of other afterlives and the libraries they contain. It’s Hero who recognises that there may well be a record of the ink that they simply don’t know about (and in the circumstances, aren’t about to find). They have another disadvantage, too: neither Claire nor Brevity are fully trained Librarians. Claire is struggling with feelings of rejection, pushing the others away Brevity, incapable of seeing books as anything less than people, is in mourning for the dead and terrified of her new responsibility. Their reactions are jagged with grief and guilt. It’s blindingly clear that the only way to handle the crisis is for our team to work together, but it’s an awfully big ask. Ramiel just quietly disapproves of everyone (it’s what angels do best), but really supportively. Hero wonders whether it could be used to write himself back into his book. Claire wants to contain it before demons – or others – try to steal the ink as a source of power Brevity wants to save the stories it surely contains. My favourite fantasy of the afterlife swings back into action as the ink of unwritten books destroyed during the battle for Hell’s Library threatens to unravel any person or book it comes in contact with. How can they fix the Library if they can’t even repair their friendship? Just as well there’s a Hero on hand…
Ideas never die, but do books have souls? Rifts have opened between Claire and Brevity following Hell’s assault on the Unwritten Wing and when a new threat emerges, sparks fly.
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