The Book That Wouldn't Burn (The Library Trilogy)

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Pros

The writing is incredible. There is incredible commentary on the way that the written word can contain multitudes. One of the most hilarious — and thought-provoking — of these are references are to the famous five. If all of this makes it sounds like ... Read More

Mark lawrence shows the destructive nature of man, the never ending greed that comes with modernization and progress. The book was lighthearted and very funny for the most part, but lawrence wasn't afraid to go to dark places. Lawrence's knack for wor... Read More

Evar has been trapped in a magical library his whole life. He has adopted his four siblings as his siblings. They find each other in a no-one's-land where they learn about each other. If only there were a portal around here.

I was fully immersed and invested in this book. It’s a perfect masterpiece. This one does. Really impressed, and so grateful.

The library itself is a living thing, a sentient beast. It is set thousands of years in the future. Things fall together very plausibly from there, and retroactively bring everything into focus.

Cons

For as poetic as it’s exhibited, it presents as one dimensional, flat, and monochromatic. I had a really hard time finishing it. The bad guys are not the least bit scary and nothing ever happens. Maybe i am just too simple minded but i want an easy re... Read More

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Quality

Slow burn, superb world building, complex characters, surpising turns in the story all add up to one of the best new entries this year.

Really great world building, characters i become invested in and a great plot, only complaint is that the whole series isn’t av... Read More

After that, theit stories intertwine and overlap.

The book that wouldn’t burn is contemplative, romantic, existential, and even at times, shocking, horrifying and bleak.

Price

But, that last third will take you on the ride of your life and make the payoff more than worth it.

Shipping

I can’t believe it ends the way it did and april 2024 can’t come quickly enough.

Competitiveness

Though i docked it a star for not being as compelling as the broken empire series, this one is far more ambitious in scope.

Also, this book is less dark than some of his earlier works, and it has a more magical quality that i've seen him embrace in recent years.

Le guin had some unholy multiverse offspring.

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This product had a total of 4,014 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 8 2024.