A New York Times bestseller!
“A bewitching gem...I absolutely loved every moment of this story.” —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series
“If you loved the Hogwarts Library…you’ll be right at home at Summershall.” —Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens comes an “enthralling adventure” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom.
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.
Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire, and Elisabeth is implicated in the crime. 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.
This poor book deserved a lot better of me, but alas my reading slump has struck right when it was getting down to business and I put it aside until now. In its defense, if you don't consider the literal two months it just sat on my shelf, waiting patiently for me to notice it senpai, I read this one in four or three days, so take that however you will.
I found that I really enjoyed all the characters in this book; Elisabeth and Nathaniel were H O T together, and their chemistry sizzled from the moment their eyes locked. Their form of flirting consists of Nathaniel affectionately calling Elisabeth "You absolute terror" and "you menance" and I am here for it.
Silas is a great demon butler and five minutes without him and the house falls to ruin, and that's a fact.
This book is also very cinematic. There are some scenes in this that I would DIE to see brought to the screen in some fashion. Netflix should get on with that.
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