While she had never possessed much in the way of curves, the sapphire gown made her figure look proud and statuesque. Her blue eyes contrasted vividly against her pink, scrubbed cheeks. Her hair cascaded over her shoulders in smooth, glossy chestnut waves, and she was cleaner than she had ever been before in her life. Elisabeth stared at the girl reflected there, barely recognizing herself. She wheeled Elisabeth around to face the mirror.

The whole story is littered with holes like this.Īnd also, Is this even a YA Fantasy if there’s not at least one makeover scene like this? 2 Books 1 Sorcery of Thorns Margaret Rogerson From 10.

See the complete Sorcery of Thorns series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. What purpose did this event serve other than just lazily informing the protagonist of their intentions? The Sorcery of Thorns book series by Margaret Rogerson includes books Sorcery of Thorns and The Mysteries of Thorn Manor. Mercy was hired to work at Thorn Manor as Silas, the only servant at the Manor, was presumed dead. Why bring her there? Why talk about the plans in front of her? Silas had a talk with me this morning about how he isnt going to murder me and bury me in the back garden. Why’d they bring her there and reveal everything thinking she can’t hear anything. They invite her into their home and treat her nicely so that no one suspects a thing.īut after that, they go to the troubles of enchanting the protagonist unconscious (which doesn’t work on her but they don’t know it yet as she pretends being enchanted) and then bring her to the place where they plot “sinister plots” and basically spill all their evil plans in front of her supposedly unconscious form and then wake her up under the pretense that she’d probably fallen and lost consciousness not knowing she’d heard everything and then return her to her room. One of them played out like this: The villains are reputable people and under the guise of friendliness to the protagonist. There were pointless scenes just for the sake of it.

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