It's a decent concept. A world in which the Library of Alexandria was never destroyed. The Library now rules the world and is very stingy with knowledge. The tech is pretty cool and the story is alright but I didn't care much about the characters and so the extensive violence didn't bother me like it might have if I actually cared about the characters. Decently written, but not something I'm going to highly recommend to people. It felt like there were threads that were never followed up and the plot it did follow wasn't the most interesting it could have been. Maybe the sequels are better but I won't be reading them to find out. Not bad, but not what I was expecting.