This was my Owl Crate book for June. If you aren't familiar with Owl Crate you need to be!! It is a monthly box that comes with a YA book and goodies. The book has a special cover that differs from the covers the book has in bookstores and the goodies are awesome, like the June box, there was a pin, a tote bag with a great quote and art on it, a pin, coffee, a gel pen shaped like a key (read the book to understand the importance of that), and a letter from the author.
Anyway, this book, Sorcery of Thorns is a fantasy/adventure about magical books in magical libraries cared for by a girl, Elizabeth, who grows up in this library. But when greed and evil and misused magic enter her realm she is called to be the hero.
Elizabeth was found on the doorstep of a library as an infant and was raised there. When she is 13 she becomes and apprentice and hopes to be a Warden some day. She has a love of the books and some of the books seem to know her heart and react kindly to her. Some books however seem to house dark material and need to be kept in differing levels of tight control. The worst thing that can happen is a book becoming a Malefict, this is taking on a monstrous form and going on a killing spree....There are demons and sorcerers and books that have eyes.....
While trying to find her way and her place in her world she finds friends and love where she least expected to realizing that sometimes the things we are told by those who are teaching us values isn't always right and fear and time without knowing those considered "other" can color how they are seen and maybe, just maybe we need to learn for ourselves the truth and make up our own minds. And sometimes doing the right thing comes at a cost but is still the right thing to do.
I truly loved this book about books and magic and LIBRARIES!!!
(Finished July 7, 2019)
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