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. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.
Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. 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.
My thoughts
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Published on: 4th June 2019
Author: Margaret Rogerson
Young Adult Fantasy
This was my second Margaret Rogerson book (Enchantment of Ravens) and I fell in love with it straight away.
We follow Elisabeth who is an orphan who lives in a Library full of magical grimoires. She wants nothing more than to be a warden and take care of these books. However her world is turned upside down when a grimoire escapes. She is then on the run and has to turn to Nathaniel, a sorcerer. With Nathaniels’ reluctant help, she embarks on a journey that will turn everything she knows upside down.
I adored both Elisabeth and Nathaniel dynamic. Its supposed to be an ememies to lovers trope but its pretty clear that Nathaniel is smitten with Elisabeth from the start.
Silas, the demon butler/what ever he needs to be really stole the show for me. I loved how we got to know him and how he is different from other demons.
If you are lookling for an easy, cosy, quick paced read then this one is for you.
4.5 stars from me
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