Sorcery of Thorns
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy
4.2
(19.4K)
Margaret Rogerson
A New York Times bestseller! “A bewitching gem...I absolutely loved every moment of this story.” —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series “If you loved the Hogwarts Library…you’ll be right at home at Summershall.” —Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale From the New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens comes an “enthralling adventure” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom.All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire, and Elisabeth is implicated in the crime. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them. As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.
Fantasy
Magic
High Fantasy
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Author
Margaret Rogerson
Pages
464
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2019-06-04
ISBN
1481497634 9781481497633
Ratings
Google: 5
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"This was pretty dang good for a YA novel. The premise was intriguing and I was immediately sucked in. I liked how the author didn’t word vomit all the exposition and just naturally world built as you kept reading. I can’t stand when authors use huge blocks of pages to explain something that they could just demonstrate through actions and events. This novel just made the world building seem natural. The plot of someone sabotaging the Great Libraries and Elisabeth being pulled into the fray was also very gripping, but I will admit that the plot lost steam as the book went on. As soon as Elisabeth was in Ashcroft’s manor, all the tension and suspense that had been built up diminished. It wasn’t done away with entirely but it just didn’t have the effect that the beginning was building up to. The beginning was so good and, in comparison, the rest of the big events lacked luster. That being said, where the novel really shined was the relationships between the character, especially between Elisabeth, Nathaniel and Silas. They were very 3 dimensional and every interaction between the 3 added to the character growth. Nathaniel and Elisabeth had so much great chemistry and banter right from the start that you immediately root for them and Silas was by far the most interesting character. I also loved how despite Elisabeth stereotypically being an orphan her arc was not about wondering about her parents or why they left her at the library. She embraced that element of her identity and didn’t shy away from it. It was refreshing to see. Her real arc about her naïveté from being locked away from the world transforming into a grave understanding that nothing is black and white, that even demons can have good in them, was extremely well executed. Awesome read!"
"I think this would have soared as a shorter novel. It started incredibly strong but really started to show its cracks around the halfway point. Everything was incredibly convenient, and the lack of consequences honestly made me feel a little cheated by the end of the book. Before it began to drag it really was a lovely read. The characters were loveable and the world was wonderfully whimsical."
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