That maybe the fish and shoes and other distractions were a bit much. I did think quite a few times as Sanderson/Alcatraz took detour after detour in the narrative that maybe it was several times too many.

This book suffers the same problems that Evil Librarians did: I liked the snide comments and the tongue-in-cheek-ness, but it also simultaneously annoyed me.

Teamed up with Bastille and having met his uncle Kaz and cousin Australia - oh, and being chased by a member of the Scrivener’s Bones, a half-human, half-Alivened machine-thing that’s pretty ominous - he heads down into the bowels to see what he, and his Talent of Breaking things, can do. This time, however, Alcatraz needs to find his grandfather, who has gone searching for his father in the (dreaded) Library of Alexandria (you only thought it was destroyed). The Scrivener's Bones is the second book in this action-packed fantasy series for young readers.The book picks up where Evil Librariansleft off, basically (it’s been more than a year since I read the last one, and I didn’t really feel like I was missing anything). After being all heroic and stuff in that tale, I didn’t expect to charge headlong into enemy territory: the Library of Alexandria, where I-and my grandpa and my grouchy bodyguard Bastille and her even grouchier mother and some weirdly gifted cousins-would face the Curators (ghosts who will gladly help you check out a book as long as you don’t mind giving up your mortal soul) and some new nasty Librarians who hate our guts.and would be happy to rip them out for us.īut none of that comes close to the horror we would have to face if we succeeded in finding what we were searching for… So now you’ve read all about me, Alcatraz Smedry, and how I was swept out of my life in your normal world and into the fight against the Librarians (jerks!).

#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn series Brandon Sanderson continues the epic adventure he began in Alcatraz vs.

Alcatraz vs the evil librarians book 2