![]() ![]() But then it took a sharp left turn down OH YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW WHERE THIS WAS GOING street and did its own thing, for the most part. Except without the sister relationship between the heroine and her two younger sisters that made Howl’s Moving Castle so fun to read. ![]() ![]() During the first 1/3 or so, this was reading like a precise carbon copy of Howl’s Moving Castle, right down to the demon making a contract with a wizard and the main female character needing to break that curse to save the wizard, in the process falling in love with him, and meanwhile the demon is kind of sassy and says unexpected things, and the heroine making a sacrifice of what she thought she valued the most in order to save the wizard. ![]() Later when I set out to write my own YA fantasy, I decided that I would use this one as a comp, but wanted to read it first for myself to make sure.Īs always, I’ll discuss three parts of this book I enjoyed and three parts I didn’t like so much so that you can draw your own conclusions about whether or not to pick it up.Īll the interesting twists this book took. Why I read this book:My favorite Booktuber of all time, Codie’s Book Corner, showed this in a TBR video and I looked it up and thought the concept was interesting. Sorcery of Thorns is a love letter to libraries and reading, filled with dark whimsy and elements reminiscent of Howl’s Moving Castle… so much so that you begin to wonder if it’s not just a carbon-copy of HMC. ![]()
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