Ink and Bone By Rachel Caine

 

This is the first book in a series called, The Great Library. Ruthless and supremely powerful, the great library is now present in every major city. Alexandria is where the main library is. Young Jess Brightwell is only ten years old when his father asks him to carry a book to one of his customers. Jess is never happy about doing this, he would rather be reading the books his dad is holding, even if it's against the law. Jess is what your call a runner and if he's caught with a book he could end up being hanged. His dad tells him where to take the book and protects it by hiding it in a sleeve under his clothes. Jess takes off running. 

The Garda is what tries to catch the runners. They see Jess and he takes off running. He ends up close to where the one library is in his town and sitting on stone pedestals are lions and they are looking at him. Their eyes turn red and Jess is frozen. Then, they start to move and people start to run. it's time for him to move it. He finally makes it to where he needs to be. But, the person he hands the book too, starts to tear pages and eat them. Jess is shocked and tries to get the book back and the guy pushes him out of the door. He ended up on the ground, frozen over what he saw. He finally makes it bac home. 

A few days later his dad tells him that he's going into be tested for the library. He also thought the library was a good thing and he hopes he'll get in. He does. 

His dad take him to the train. It will be a long trip. His dad tells him that he will be his eyes and ears for him. Jess, looks at his father and says, ' that's if I make in in.'  He meets other people that are going to the library. When the train finally pulls in, they meet their teacher Wolfe and he has no mercy at all when it comes to the way he teaches.

Jess is good at seeing things and he watches a lot of what's going on. Many things happen in this book and you should read it. I'm not going to spoil what goes on. I will say this, it's one of those reads that you won't put down tell you get to the ending. It has even got me thinking of reading the second, but, I'm going to wait. There is differently a few bad people and really bad things that happen. Deaths also happen. That's all for now.