The Book That Broke the World
Ratings18
Average rating4.2
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Ratings18
Average rating4.2
The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following The Book That Wouldn’t Burn.
We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we want to be true.
Evar and Livira stand side by side and yet far beyond each other's reach. Evar is forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover her book if she's to return to her life. While Evar's journey leads him outside into the vastness of a world he's never seen, Livira's destination lies deep inside her own writing, where she must wrestle with her stories in order to reclaim the volume in which they were written.
And all the while, the library quietly weaves thread to thread, bringing the scattered elements of Livira's old life – friends and foe alike – back together beneath new skies.
Long ago, a lie was told, and with the passing years it has grown and spread, a small push leading to a chain of desperate consequences. Now, as one edifice topples into the next with ever-growing violence, it threatens to break the world. The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board. The time has come when they must fight for what they believe, or lose everything.
The Library Trilogy is about many things: adventure, discovery, and romance, but it's also a love letter to books and the places where they live. The focus is on one vast and timeless library, but the love expands to encompass smaller more personal collections, and bookshops of all shades too.
Reviews with the most likes.
I feel like I still have no clue what’s ultimately going on in this series, but the picture is starting to become clearer. Like a lot of middle books, there’s a ton of moving pieces here that need to be pulled together, but it seems like there’s a consistent plan for that to happen. I really hope this trilogy sticks the landing!
I am not sure what to think of this one. I liked it, but I felt the story wandered from the main characters, and a lot of the book seemed to be side quests, and it took a long way to basically setup the final book.
New characters were okay, but felt too much time was spent with them and not with the main characters of the first book, which are the main characters of the series.
Plot was a bit convoluted and confusing, but overall I am hoping this book will look better in hindsight once the conclusion to the series is releases.
3.75 STARS
It took me a more time than usual between finishing this book and writing the review, and I'm somehow still looking for the right words to do it
It doesn't really matter, ”All of these words are noise. The only role the brain plays in these decisions is to come up with the explanation after the heart has chosen”, and my heart stands for the first words I've found: It was brilliant!
In the Book That Broke the World we see the world-building expand, while remaining claustrophobic in its vastness, we are introduced to new characters and sides of the conflict, we follow the characters we are already fond of, and get to unexpectedly fall in love with characters we already knew and couldn't imagine how much they would mean to us.
This series has been the perfect mix of entertaining, thought provoking, devastating and heartwarming. I have no idea where the story is going, but it has been a hell of a ride.
Thank you Charles for buddy reading this with me!
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2 primary books4 released booksThe Library Trilogy is a 4-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2023 with contributions by Mark Lawrence. The next book is scheduled for release on 4/8/2025.
