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The Book That Wouldn't Burn
A Fantasy Novel by Mark Lawrence
Book 1 of the The Library Trilogy Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Library Fantasy,
- Portal Fantasy,
- Multiple POV
This book is for you if you're into...
- Labyrinthine libraries packed with secrets and impossible architecture
- Stories where knowledge is dangerous and truth is never simple
- Characters whose destinies intertwine across worlds and time
From Little Stack
If the idea of getting lost in a gigantic, mysterious library sounds like your idea of heaven, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn is going to be catnip.
Mark Lawrence takes the familiar fantasy trope of a magical library and turns the dial all the way up. This isn’t a quiet place where characters occasionally stop to browse the shelves. It’s a sprawling, dangerous world packed with secrets, forgotten histories, strange magic and mysteries that stretch across centuries.
At its heart are Livira, a young woman determined to become a librarian, and Evar, a boy trapped inside the library, whose stories eventually collide in ways neither expects. There are monsters, ancient powers, hidden passages and enough twists to keep you suspicious of absolutely everything. Best of all, Lawrence makes the library itself feel alive.
If you like epic fantasy with puzzles, adventure and seriously imaginative world-building, prepare to lose yourself between the shelves and the rest of this completed series.
Two strangers find themselves connected by a vast and mysterious library containing many wonders and still more secrets, in this powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns.
The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities.
The girl has been plucked from the outskirts of civilization to be trained as a librarian, studying the mysteries of the great library at the heart of her kingdom.
They were never supposed to meet. But in the library, they did.
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.
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