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However, I appreciated Elisabeth’s bias allowed for the world and its politics and magic rules to be slowly introduced. Elisabeth was initially a bit judgemental and ignorant, considering her job is being a librarian (she consumes knowledge that doesn’t believe in absolutes all day) I found it annoying (for example, her belief that all sorcerers are super evil). The book was slow to get moving at the start. However, once Elisabeth is taken into the custody of the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn to face justice in the capital, it becomes evident a larger and much more sinister conspiracy is afoot. Elisabeth is blamed for letting loose the grimoire–a magical book imbued with sorcery that allows it to turn into a destructive monster, if not contained–that killed the director. The book follows the Heroine, Elisabeth, after she’s believed to be guilty of the death of her beloved Library Director.

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Does have a separation between the Heroine and Hero.

Does have the Hero pushing the Heroine away.

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.