All sorcerers are bound to high-born demons from who they draw their powers from. I loved that not everyone had magic in this world and the ones who did had to give a piece of themselves away for it. Her writing was spellbinding (yes) and the towns and winding paths of the library floors full of thousands of grimoires, came so much to life that I felt like I was there, surrounded by the intoxicating smells of ink, paper, and aetherial combustion. I was blown away by the worldbuilding and magical system that Rogerson developed in Sorcery. Grimoires that refused to open, their voices gone silent, or whose ink faded and bled across the pages like tears. But there was also so much adventure, magic, sorcerers, demons, mystery, murder, plotting, friendship and romance in the story.īooks, too, had hearts, though they were not the same as people’s, and a book’s heart could be broken she had seen it happen before.
Books that, if damaged, can turn transform into frightening and unstoppable monsters that ravage towns and steal lives. Books that need to be stored in Great Libraries so that they can be protected from the world, but also so that the world can be protected from them. Books that have been made of the most gruesome of things (eyes, faces, teeth), full of dark and evil. Y’all, this story was about libraries and books–but not just any old books–but magical books (grimoires) that have thoughts and feelings and are alive. 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.
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