"Kiela had heard a little about that, but she hadn't paid much attention since it wasn't library-related...she'd read some of the discourse in the pamphlets written by the revolutionaries...she hadn't thought of what that meant on a practical day-to-day level."

Ok, this annoyed me. She's a librarian who works in the capital but is so sheltered she didn't even pay a tiny bit of attention to current events? Are we going to pretend that library work is non-political? The library literally burns down around her, forcing her to flee for her life, and she still only has the vaguest idea of why this happened. Her only concern is about the books, but she can't extend her perspective to what those books could represent, culturally or politically? I can give an antisocial character a pass for being kind of unplugged, but it just seems so impossible that she can be this stupid that it feels like a contrivance to stuff some exposition in through the mouths of the locals. Either that or the author is trying to paint being an out-of-touch ivory tower elite as somehow endearing, and I'm not into that.