But it takes a definite backseat to the world and story that is Sorcery of Thorns. That’s not to say that there isn’t romance, because there is. I just don’t normally pursue a book that appears to be entirely focused on it. Call it the roses, pinkish red gems on the sword or unnaturally voluptuous hair.Īnd it’s not that I don’t enjoy a good fantasy romance. Not for any particularly bad reason, I just felt the cover exuded a strong feeling of romance. If it weren’t for that, I probably wouldn’t have read it. The Litjoycrate Edition is signed, it includes a reversible dust jacket, a letter from the author, art in the book, and trading cards.I’ll be honest, the only reason I read Sorcery of Thorns is because it was our group read over at YA Fantasy Addicts on Facebook.The Owlcrate Edition is signed, it includes a Sorcery of Thorns-inspired Book Sleeve (designed by Chatty Nora), a letter from the author, and a sticker decal.Katrien Quillworthy - Elisabeth's best friend.Oberon Ashcroft - Minister of Magic and the main antagonist of the book.Nathaniel Thorn - Eighteen years old Nathaniel is a sorcerer of the House Thorn.Elisabeth Scrivener - Elisabeth is sixteen years old and an orphan.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.

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