Awakening Infinity – Meghan Ciana Doidge

Dusk is a very young dragon. (She’s 25, and about as mature as a Human 25-year-old. She’s 75 years from being considered fully adult. She has Human form.) She is an Archivist, which is to say she’s a book wyrm, with magic particularly oriented toward libraries and the like.

At the start of the book she and her baby brother sneak off their estate, to Oslo, and she tries to connect her Archive to the internet. (They are the only dragons on the estate. This is ‘sneak’ as in, any dragon who knew of this would consider it a Bad Idea.) The results are inconclusive: Her Archive is mostly-somnolent for the rest of this book. There are clues that it will become far more active and aware in the next book.

The trip is derailed by a summons. The Guardians (the most powerful dragons in existence) upend her life and order her to move to Dublin and live among Humans - well, Human witches - pretending to be one of them. They don’t waste explanations on her, and it isn’t as if she has a choice.

The book is all setup for the series. (This is acknowledged by numbering it as book 0.) It’s all about introducing the characters and the milieu. But both are charming

This book is a spinoff of an earlier series, but not having read that series is not an impediment. The book isn’t labeled YA, but it has that feel - which is also not an impediment. I’m going to enjoy this series.