Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

Title: Sorcery of Thorns

Author: Margaret Rogerson

Page count: 456 pages

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

“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. “

Honestly, this book took me awhile to read (more than a month). Not because it was bad, but because I was dealing with some personal issues that caused me to go into a reading slump. The good news is that I’m out of the slump now and was able to finish this beauty.

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To start this review off, Silas has easily become one of my favorite side characters, right up there with Sevro from Red Rising. I hope that he isn’t truly gone forever.

I liked that the romance between the two main leads was not the main focus of the book. It felt very natural, which isn’t something I’ve been seeing a lot of recently.

The world building was amazing and really emersive. It seemed like a world that I would love to live in. Especially given how adventurous being a librarian seems.

The only real complaint that I have is that it’s a standalone book and not a series. With that cliffhanger ending and how much I just really liked the world it’s set in, I feel like it needs a sequel, or at least a novella to follow up on the characters.