The Book That Wouldn't Burn
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4.4 • 90 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lawrence (the Broken Empire trilogy) draws readers into a vast subterranean library in this thrilling romantic fantasy and Library Trilogy series launch. After monstrous sabbers attack Livira Page's village in the backwater known as the Dust, she finds refuge in the big city, where she adjusts quickly despite prejudice against "dusters." Meanwhile, Evar Eventari and his four siblings live in the mysterious library that stretches beneath the city. It's the only home they've ever known and they share it with a mysterious Mechanism that transforms books into "something to be physically experienced, walked through, partaken in, interrogated, shared." The quintet spent decades trapped inside the Mechanism before being spit back out again, though they did not age a day in all that time. Each of the siblings gained skills and knowledge from the books they brought into the Mechanism except for Evar, who emerged only with the vague knowledge that he is missing something—or someone—and now he needs to find her. Told over the course of years for Livira and mere days for Evar, this tale of knowledge and its cost flies by thanks to the gripping mystery and beautiful worldbuilding, ending on a devastating cliffhanger. Readers will be desperate for more.
Customer Reviews
The Book that Wouldn’t Burn is confusing
Just another book trying to be everything everywhere all of the time.
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn.
The author seemed that about half way into the book he got lost in the library of his own creation. I found it a struggle to finish the book and only continued reading to see if at some point it would make sense; alas, it did not. It was the worst book I have read in a long time