I just wish this wasn’t a standalone, because I would happily read another 500 page book about the team.#librarygoals Why You Should Read Sorcery of Thorns 1. The overall story of the great libraries being attacked, and Elisabeth navigating her way through a misogynistic world kept my attention, and while there were some pacing issues I thought the villain was really well written. Them alongside Elisabeth are a perfect team, the banter just flowed and I would have been happy to just sit and read 100 pages of them spending a lazy evening together. Silas and Nathaniel are the driving force of the story, and I was so happy to see what appeared to be an aromantic, asexual character (Silas) and a bisexual character (Nathaniel).
I’ve been burned by fantasy books this year, but this story made me remember how good they can be, with sentient books, a sinister plot, and an ancient demon who can transform into an indignant cat Elisabeth affectionately names Mr Fluffington.
I’m trying to clear some books that have been sitting on my NetGalley shelf for a while, and this is the oldest. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.Īnd what do we do at the very end of a Goodreads Reading Challenge? We read books that are nearly 500 pages long. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.Īs 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. 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. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. 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. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. From the New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens comes an imaginative fantasy about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom.Īll sorcerers are evil.
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