This setting immediately drew me in, as the books within the library, including the grimoires themselves, were fascinating. The kingdom of Austermeer is known for its six Great Libraries, which house grimoires, to protect those that might harm them and to protect others from the grimoires. The story follows Elisabeth, who was left on the front steps of Austermeer’s Great Libraries. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.Īfter greatly enjoying An Enchantment of Ravens and before starting Vespertine, I decided to try Sorcery of Thorns, as many people seem to love it a lot. 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. Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire, and Elisabeth is implicated in the crime. 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.
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