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The Book That Wouldn't Burn

by Mark Lawrence

Grade A-
Finished February 24, 2024
Genre Fantasy
Publisher HarperVoyager, 2023

My Review

Very well crafted. I liked how the 2 stories came together in unexpected ways. It says this is a trilogy and I'm not sure about that, but I enjoyed this as a standalone book.

Publisher Description

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.