The author opens with this dedication: For all the girls who found themselves in books. In regards to this second book though, I stand corrected, it is absolutely phenomenal. Very rarely do second books impress me, whether one-shots or sequels. Sorcery of Thorns is the author's second book. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.Īfter reading the author's first book, An Enchantment of Ravens, a few years back and finding it a worthwhile read, but not something I fell in love with, I was looking forward to reading more from this author. 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 so 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 the shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. McElderry Books (Simon & Schuster), 2019 (Hardcover)Īll sorcerers are evil.
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