When a Sorcerer comes to the library, Elisabeth and her friends are interested, which results in Elisabeth meeting Nathaniel Thorn, a Magister of the age 18. She does what she needs to as an assistant Librarian, which even means helping the Library Director with more dangerous tasks. It is up to the wardens to both protect the books and destroy them if necessary.Įlisabeth’s daily life is pretty average. Grimoires are filled with a dangerous demonic energy, for the purpose of their spells, that can manifest itself outside of the book to become the equivalent of a monster. Plot Overview:Įlisabeth has lived in the Great Library for her whole life, wanting to be a warden for the Great Libraries and to keep watch over the ever dangerous Grimoires that they watch. If there is one thing I know for sure? It is because of books like this that I love reading. This is a standalone that is beautiful as a standalone. I have complained about other books in which I believe their events would do better when spread out over a longer period of time. This book is a standalone, and for what it’s worth it does it well. There were so many things about this book that I could elaborate on, but I don’t know if I will. I loved the characters, the quotes, the love for books, the magic, and the humor. Can I go back and read it again without knowing how it was going to go? I simply can not express how much I love this. Okay but note: The author’s message in the book has me! See in notable quotes.

Am I super hyped? Nope, but I am excited in general. FairyLoot books are always a lot of fun and I have been meaning to read this one since I got it.

This is the book I got in my FaiyLoot box last month and so I have high hopes for it. If anything could be more up my ally, I’m not sure what it would be. This is a book about magic and about libraries. 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.

Sorcery of thorns book review