Finally, Lady Primrose’s nerves reached their limits. ‘She was taking notes in the parlor when a fight broke out between Lady Primrose and a Class Two named Throckmorton’s Peerage, who had been spitting wads of ink at the other grimoires on and off all afternoon. Bits and pieces like the one below just made me laugh. They were alive, the magic or sorcerer making them into their own being. However having said that, I loved every other aspect of this book.
As it was written in third person we also could have had Nathaniel point of view if his information was so important. In some cases I don’t think we even needed to have overheard bits and pieces. Some of that took a bit of dynamic away from the story. Adding on to that, in the first half of the book she is used a lot to give us information from others by overhearing (in hiding, pretending to be affected by glamour etc). It is not that I dislike her but I just mostly felt neutral to her as a person. And I am just going to jump in here and say that Elizabeth is the reason I rated this book 4 and not 5 stars. Great Libraries secure and protect the magical, whispering grimoires of the country. In Sorcery of Thorns we meet Elizabeth who grew up within the walls of a Great Library. It being a standalone was a great extra bonus. When some of my friends started raving about Sorcery of Thorns and whispered library to me I knew that I had to give this one a chance. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined 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. Trigger Warnings: Held Against Will / Mentioned loss of loved ones / Panic AttacksĪll sorcerers are evil. Tags: Fantasy / Young Adult / Standalone / Libraries / Magical Grimoires / Sorcery / Demons / Imps / Politics / LGBTQ+ / Bisexual / Mentioned Aromantic / Mental Health / Trauma / Anxiety Book: Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
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