Sorcery of Thorns
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens comes an imaginative fantasy about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom.
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.
Also available as an audiobook.
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Margaret Rogerson is happiest hunched over her computer, subjecting fictional people to a wide range of physical and emotional tortures. When she isn’t reading or writing, she can be found watching documentaries, spending time in nature, and taking photos of mushrooms shaped like butts. Her greatest life achievement occurred in second grade, when she learned to flawlessly imitate the vocalizations of her class guinea pig, Peanut. You can find her on Instagram at @margaret_rogerson, where she might post some of her scandalous mushroom photos if you bother her enough.
3 QUESTIONS WITH MARGARET ROGERSON!
1. What was your favorite childhood book?
There are so many books that shaped me as a kid, but I have to go with Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede, which I re-read at least a dozen times, carrying around as a battered paperback wherever I went.
2. What is your favorite scene you’ve ever written?
Hmmm… let’s say the teapot scene in An Enchantment of Ravens. It was a completely unplanned scene, and I happened to write it spontaneously while spending the day outdoors at my favorite park in beautiful October weather, which I think gave it a certain panache!
3. What question do you wish more readers asked you?
I’m an ardent lover of science and nature documentaries, so I wish more readers asked for documentary recommendations! Some favorites of mine are Life on Fire, The Poisoner’s Handbook, Ireland’s Wild River, and The Planets on PBS.