The Book That Wouldn't Burn

I'm so glad I started this trilogy when all three books were already out

Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

I started the first book thinking I was going to read a relaxing story about books and a library, but then there was war and rascism and conflict which I didn't really expect but was positively surprised. The first few chapters are slow and I was kind of confused and disappointed that the plot had little to do with the title or the cover, but once you get past that point the story makes an incredible turn and everything starts to make sense. The characters are wonderful, the story is very interesting and the way the plot twists and twirls is just mindblowing. I read all three books and completely loved them!

"We are the stories we tell to ourselves. Nothing more."

Bewertet: eBook (ePUB 3)

Livira only knows the Dust, the barren world without cities, or crowds, or anything but the huts that built her home. Until the sabbers attack. She learns of cities, histories languages and much more. Evar Evantari is trapped, his world limited by the stone ceiling high above and the locked doors promising a worl outside. His brothers and sister, by circumstance, live with him among the stacks of books in many tongues. Until one book falls before his eyes and points at a way out of his library imprisionment. In a world circling around an infinitely mysterious library, one book opens a whole new depth to the collection. It won’t surprise anyone that I love books and thus reading about a library as large and mysterious as the one in the Library Trilogie by Mark Lawrence made me want to crawl in between the pages! In the beginning the story feels almost slow but that’s because you’re only getting to know the two protagonists. Livira, a genius at remembering stuff and asking questions, just like Evar, the odd one out in a family of prodigies, lead their own lives until they are connected. For anyone reading fantasy it will be clear from the start that it will happen but I was blown away with the how and when. Once that happens, I could barely put this book down, waiting for the two to meet again and then being once again hit out of nowhere with it. It’s a great play on perspectives and narration, toying with the reader and the characters in the way only a book can. Mark Lawrence used the most powerful thing a book has to force perspectives onto his readers and characters alike: narrative perspectives. But beside the literary lesson, he reaches futher and applies the same lecture about perspective to politcs and wars, making you ask yourself who really is the enemy? This book made me feel with the characters, immersed me in their confusion and conflicts, and struck me with their shock and pain. Definitely a book I’ll recommend to anyone with a knack for the world of literature, a curious mind, and a desire to dive into another world.