Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)

by Margaret Rogerson

“What is the point of life if you don’t believe in anything?”

To think that the world could fall to ruin due to the decisions of a single small-minded man in charge—that that was all it took to doom everyone—

For these were not ordinary books the libraries kept. They were knowledge, given life. Wisdom, given voice. They sang when starlight streamed through the library’s windows. They felt pain and suffered heartbreak. Sometimes they were sinister, grotesque—but so was the world outside. And that made the world no less worth fighting for, because wherever there was darkness, there was also so much light.

Was that what it meant to lose someone? The pain never went away. It just got… covered up.