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The Book That Held Her Heart

The Book That Held Her Heart

FantasyEpic Fantasy
Published
2025
Language
English

Synopsis

The final volume in Mark Lawrence's Library Trilogy, following The Book That Wouldn't Burn and The Book That Broke the World. The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book — a book that holds the power to break the unbreakable. 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.

A new point-of-view character opens this volume: Anne Hoffman, a Jewish girl living under Nazi rule in prewar Germany, who grows up in the peace of her grandfather's secondhand bookshop until that sanctuary is pierced by antisemitism and fascism.

The bond between Livira and Evar has stretched and stretched again. This is the trilogy's last chapter, bringing its long-running war, its scattered characters, and its central relationship to a close.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

Multiple POVs

Genres

Fantasy Epic Fantasy High Fantasy Science Fiction

About the author

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Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence was born in 1966, in the United States. While he was still young, his parents moved to the United Kingdom. Lawrence has a degree in physics and holds a PhD in mathematics. He is married and has four children. Lawrence is the primary carer of his disabled child Celyn, and for this reason he does not travel to promote his books or attend conventions. He works as a novelist and was a research scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. He has held secret level clearance w...

Characters

Livira PageProtagonist

Fighting to reunite her scattered allies and end the library's long war.

Evar EventariProtagonist

Separated from Livira by distance and time, working toward the same end.

Anne HoffmanSupporting

A Jewish girl growing up in her grandfather's bookshop in prewar Germany.

All characters in The Book That Held Her Heart