Branwen Sedai *of the Brown Ajah*'s Reviews > The Invisible Hour

This book has made me SO emotional. It resonated with me on so many levels. Definitely one of my top reads of the year so far. Could it have been a bit longer, with more character development? Sure. But it felt like a gorgeous dream of a book, a fairy tale made of hope and love and the special magic of books!

"They thought I only had a life that I lived here, but I had found other possibilities every time I read a book."

"People whispered that she had changed countless lives, as librarians often did, and it was true there were several people who had come to pay their respects that she would likely not have recognized, grown men and women who had found help and consolation in the library when they were small. 'I have just the right book for you', she would always say, and she always did."

"In a place where books were banned there could be no personal freedom, no hope, and no dreams for the future. Turn someone into a reader and you turn the world around."

"In every fairy tale the girl who is saved is the one who rescues herself."

"Real life is unbelievable. Souls are snatched from us, flesh and blood turn to dust, people you love betray you, men go to war over nothing. It's all preposterous. That's why we have novels. To make sense of things."

"She thought about the day that she'd believed would be her last day on earth. How lucky she's been to have walked into a library. How grateful she was to hold the book in her hands."