My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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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. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.
Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. 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.
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I love Margaret Rogerson. As a writer with her debut novel "An Enchantment of Ravens", she transported me to the world of the Fae where magic and paintings have power. In her new book, Libraries are Institutions where books are kept safe, and locked away from the eyes of humans and also magic can be found among their pages, along with other terrifying things.
Elisabeth has grown among books all her life; when the Director of her Library is found dead and a sorcerer named Nathaniel is brought to deliver her in the capital for questioning, shedding light to long lost secrets and how the grimoires can be used for both good and evil.
Margaret's writing is stellar. I loved Elisabeth as the main character along with Nathaniel and his demon servant, Silas. There's sarcasm, adventure, action and a romance that's slow burning and very beautiful to read. I also loved Silas; for a demon who is supposed to care only for the magic, he gains he also loves Nathaniel and tries to help Elisabeth. The plot moves quickly and doesn't tire. I also didn't expect the final battle which was simply a-m-a-z-i-n-g!
And for those who keep asking; NO. Sorcery of Thorns isn't a sequel to An Enchantment of Ravens.
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