Secret Shopper Summary

 I found that I really enjoyed the secret shopper experience. I have not asked for help at a library reference desk since I was a kid. I am quite used to being on the librarian side of a reference now, so I don't even think to ask others for recommendations. Typically, I use my own reference skills along with library databases to find my next read. I asked the librarian that helped me for something similar to Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros and explained that I enjoyed the dragons and that the Scribes almost felt like a secret society or order. Based on this information and some other answers that I gave to her questions, the librarian did a few searches and brought me five books that she thought I might enjoy. Four of the books were strictly dragon related and the fifth was about a secret society. I chose two of the books to look into a little more and thanked her for her time. Unfortunately, I could not check the books out because I do not have a card at the library I visited, but I added them to my TBR list and shelved the books again when I was finished.

The books the librarian recommended me based on the criteria of dragons, secret societies, published after 2010, and set in a fictional place were:

• Burn by Patrick Ness
• Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan
• Together We Burn by Isabel Ibanez
• Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa
• The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

 The books I chose from this list are Together We Burn and The Atlas Six. Two things that I noted that the librarian did not ask me were about book length preference and if I prefer series or standalone.