The Book that Held Her Heart
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Two people once connected by a vast and mysterious library are now separated and must overcome time and distance to reunite and bring peace to their worlds…
The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book, a book that holds the power to break the unbreakable. In the face of such forces, fragile things like hearts, family, and the world seem certain to fail.
The people most vital to Livira are scattered across time and space, lost, divided into factions, in mortal peril. Somehow, she must bring them together and resolve the unresolvable argument that fuels the library’s war.
The bond between Livira and Evar has stretched and stretched again. Can it hold at the end, when things fall apart? Can it bring them together against impossible odds?
This is the last chapter, the final page. The end threatens and no one, not characters, readers, or even the author, will emerge unscathed.
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3 primary books5 released books#3 in The Library Trilogy
The Library Trilogy is a 5-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 1994 with contributions by Mark Lawrence.
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I’m not too sure this trilogy stuck the landing. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood for it, but I found the book slow and fairly boring. The emotional beats didn’t hit for me and I was just glad to be done with it.
I loved the world of the library and all the characters in it. I liked the long view of history and the questions it probed about human morality, the cycle of violence, and the power of knowledge.
But this book was such a horrible, awful, epileptic ending to this trilogy. It felt like sitting in front of the TV while the channel changed every 15 seconds. The timelines, alternate realities and characters (+ their many alternate versions) jumped around so much I was physically frustrated.
There was no following this plot- it grasped for deeper meaning through the library’s fate, but failed to execute. The themes were overstated, essentially nothing happened in the plot except a ton of jumping around in time and universes, the romances were flimsy, and I couldn’t find it in me to care about any of the characters I had come to love in the first two books.
They were all thrown together in this last novel to chaotic ends. I only finished this out of loyalty to the world I loved from the first two books. Wholly jolting and unsatisfying.
Still appreciate this series and can only imagine how much effort and emotion went into creating it. I feel the need to say that I’m always grateful for authors out there creating magical worlds for us and have so much respect for what it takes in spite of this review.
