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The Book That Held Her Heart (The Library Trilogy, Book 3)
By (Author) Mark Lawrence
Book 3
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperVoyager
1st August 2025
10th April 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical fantasy
Fantasy romance
Contemporary fantasy
Narrative theme: Coming of age
813.6
Hardback
400
Width 159mm, Height 240mm, Spine 38mm
480g
The final volume in the The Library Trilogy, following THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN and THE BOOK THAT BROKE THE WORLD.
The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board
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 librarys 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.
'If you like dark, you will love Mark Lawrence' Robin Hobb, bestselling author of Assassin's Apprentice
'Gripping mystery and beautiful worldbuilding' Publishers Weekly
Praise for Mark Lawrence
An excellent writer
George R.R. Martin, #1 SUNDAY and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of GAME OF THRONES
Dark and relentlessA two in the morning page turner. Jaw-dropping
Robin Hobb, the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of THE ASSASSINS APPRENTICE
Excellent on par with George R.R. Martin
Conn Iggulden, author of GENGHIS
'The Library Trilogy is one of the most profound and wholly original works of fiction that Ive read in the past two decades. The Library Trilogy should place Mark Lawrences name in the same breath as other twenty-first century masters of speculative fiction'
John Mauro
Mark Lawrence gets better with every book. It has a drive to it, a pulse, a gearshift that kicks higher and higher.
Fantasy Book Review
This tale of knowledge and its cost flies by thanks to the gripping mystery and beautiful worldbuildingreaders will be desperate for more.
Publishers Weekly
Lawrence works with many threads here, but none feels misused or insufficiently explored. Rather, the author unspools them masterfully, leaving behind a tightly woven tapestry that readers will ache to see finished even if they can predict one or two of the tales myriad twists and turns. Gripping, earnest, and impeccably plotted.
Kirkus
Mark Lawrence is married with four children, one of whom is severely disabled. His day job is as a research scientist focused on various rather intractable problems in the field of artificial intelligence. Between work and caring for his disabled child, Mark spends his time writing, playing computer games, tending an allotment, brewing beer, and avoiding DIY.