Sorcery of Thorns is a bewitching gem, full of slow burning romance, loyal friendships, and extraordinary world building. 'If you are looking for magic you will find it inside this book.

Dao, author of Forest of a Thousand Lanterns This is classic fantasy at its very best.' - Julie C. 'Like the grimoires that fill its pages, Sorcery of Thorns lives, breathes, and beckons you closer with each enchanting word. This book is sheer delight.' - Jessica Cluess, author of the Kingdom on Fire trilogy The heir apparent to Diana Wynne Jones, no one can match her dark whimsy or joyous magic. 'Brimming with twisty enchantment, Sorcery of Thorns is Margaret Rogerson at her most playfully addictive. Tightly paced, hugely atmospheric, with a touch of wry humor, this book had me from its Gothic beginning right to the perfect end.' - Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale 'If you loved the Hogwarts Library, or the Great Library of the Clayr, you'll be right at home at Summershall. 'Rogerson proves herself a worthy successor to Diana Wynne Jones in this moody, atmospheric, and lively classic fantasy.This enchanting story is sure to appeal to teen readers eager for more of the world-building, fierce friendships, and feminist heroines of Robin LaFevers and Naomi Novik.' - School Library Journal 'An enthralling adventure replete with spellbinding characters, a slow-burning love story, and a world worth staying lost in.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 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.

The sorcery of thorns