Dark hair, blue eyes, pale skin – I mean, come on – his character could have fit a couple of YA books I have read so far. Nathaniel is witty, has some horrible backstory and is allegedly very handsome. That’s when you know that this book is very basic. Back in the day you could have fancast him with Logan Lerman, who was the average fancast actor for basically every YA book back then. Nathaniel Thorn is a very basic YA character as well, aside from being a sorcerer.

Because then the reader knows that nothing can happen to her because she can’t get hurt. Such characteristics kill the suspense when protagonists are supposedly in danger. And the troubles start from here on.Įlisabeth, our protagonist, was a good, yet a bit shallow, character, if it wasn’t for her very stupid flaw: being very impossible to kill.

It happens as it had to happen that a high daemons gets freed at Elisabeth’s library. So these wardens exist so no sorcerer might try to free the worst of the worst daemons. Grimoires contain daemon magic and those books might transform into proper, dangerous daemons. Well, with Summershall being one of the five Great Libraries, it’s not a common book library, but it contains magical artefacts and books, so called grimoires. But for what do libraries need wardens, one mights ask. She got taught that sorcerers are evil and will kidnap and torture you once you got into their hands. Speaking of scary sorcerers, our main character Elisabeth is a librarian apprentice, training to be a warden of the Great Library of Summershall. So being a sorcerer is probably not the most wanted job in this world of Austermeer. Another theory of mine is that commoners are too scared of sorcerers, since scary stories and superstitions about them exist. So, does this mean that theoretically every could practise magic? Either I’ve missed this information or nobody ever posed that question. I liked the world where sorcerers exist but are only able to do magic if they bound daemons to them. Which turned out to be not bad at all and very magical. Later, when I took my time to properly sit down to read Sorcery of Thorns, I had more concentration and patience for this book and I managed to dive into the plot. The writing was off for me and I can’t really say, why. Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson, 2019, Impress My Opinionįirst of all, it took me ages (okay, days) to read more than the first chapter. When apprentice librarian Elisabeth Scrivener is implicated in sabotage that release the library’s most dangerous grimoire, she becomes entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy that could mean the end of everything. Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson is a stand-alone novel.

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