Loved itIt's also a trilogy and I would just say like love a key part of this through and through and I really loved it.
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The Book That Wouldn't Burn (2023)
Others: Mostly positive 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780008456719
- Length:
- 567 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, romance
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Loved itI read that. I gave it 3.75 stars to be very specific, I thought it was fun and that's the only one I got from the library that I absolutely committed to in that video.
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Loved itthis is the first book an adult fantasy Trilogy... this was really cool this was a good start to a series and I really like Mark Laurence... I gave this four out of five stars
Loved itI'm also in the middle of the book that wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence and I'm not super far into this but I am really liking as far as I am into it's kind of giving the starless sea meets The Golden Compass is the best way I could describe it and I'm really enjoying that
Neutralthat's also fine. It's also left my brain for the most part. I don't have a lot of opinions about it. It's okay, I think you can see some of the twists a mile away if you have been reading fantasy and science fiction.
Not a fanThis is book one of the Library Trilogy by Mark Lawrence. I gave this one a one star sadly... it's got this kind of bizarre uncovering of this mystery and everything feels kind of dreamlike and you don't know what's real and what's not real.