I have read nearly almost everything that Mark Lawrence has written and enjoyed them all quite thoroughly, so when a story about a gigantic library was offered forth, I was quite pleased!
So thanks to the author, as well as Ace for the review copy!
A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities.
A girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes.
The world has never even noticed them. That’s about to change.
Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge erodes certainty, and on which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned.
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn is the story of Livira, a young girl from outside of a very large city in a region known as the Dust. Her settlement gets attacked and she ends up in the extremely large and often quite mysterious library within the city. This is also the story of Evar, who also lives in the library with his three brothers and his sister, but he seems to live in a part of it that is completely empty for as far as he knows it’s just him and his brothers and sister. He’s lived there all his life, never leaving.
First and foremost, I loved this book because of the library in it which got my imagination flowing. The library in this book is neverending, labyrinthine, and parts of it are often forbidden. Some parts can’t be accessed by any known person. Livira can call upon mysterious assistants to help her find things, like a raven who can lead her into more forbidden chambers within the library.
This book had a bit of a twist that I didn’t see coming. I thought it was really interesting and I can’t wait to read more in the series. 4.5 stars!
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