The Book That Broke the World

The Library Trilogy is set in Crath City and the surrounding desolate environment, called the Dust. Crath City is home to an extensive library, while the planet is home to several species, including humans, cranith (wolf-like creatures), and ganar (small, furry, intelligent beings). There are also insectoid species, called skeer and cratalacs.

This novel picks up where The Book That Wouldn’t Burn ends. The previous book’s protagonists, Evar and Livira, are both still in the library, but they are separated: Livira is a ghost, while Evar and his siblings are all trapped within different library rooms. In addition to following Livira and Evar’s storylines, The Book That Broke the World also follows two ganar, brother and sister Hellet and Celcha. The novel switches between two timelines: Hellet and Celcha’s story, represented by Celcha’s chapters, and a timeline set 200 years in the future, represented in Evar, Livira, and Arpix’s chapters. 

In the present, Celcha and her younger brother Hellet are enslaved in a settlement on the Arthran Plateau. They are of a species called ganar, while their enslavers are another species called sabbers. The settlement is small, and the enslaved people who work the dig site live close together.