Sorcery of Thorns

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''When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.''

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Title : Sorcery of Thorns

Author : Margaret Rogerson

Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books

Gender : Fantasy

Publication date : 2019

Number of pages : 301

Synopsis :

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.

Review :

It took me so much time to read it although it wasn't the book's fault! It was very good!

First of all, the charachters! I loved them so much! The bravery of Elizabeth, Nathaniel's devotion and Silas...the most complicated of all, they are so perfect in their imperfection.

The story construction was also a good point, the scenery, the descriptions. I've spent a great time reading it and lived the last pages.

My reading wasn't devoid of emotions, I got very attached to the charachters: their humor, their dark side...and I'm extremely impatient to meet them again.