![]() ![]() I was so glad I had the chance to read this book thanks to our monthly book club, and as you can see by my rating, I completely enjoyed it. “ The Binding ” by Bridget Collins is a wonderful tale of magic, love, loss and finding oneself and another person in the chaos of this world. ![]() TW: death, suicide, hanging, rape, killing of an animal, description of a corpse, emotional manipulation, death of a parent, violent parent. But his curiosity is piqued by the people who come and go from the inner sanctum, and the arrival of the lordly Lucian Darnay, with whom he senses a connection, changes everything.ī eware, this review will contain spoilers. He is forbidden to enter the locked room where books are stored, so he spends many months marbling end pages, tooling leather book covers, and gilding edges. ![]() ![]() Leaving behind home and family, Emmett slowly regains his health while learning the binding trade. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate is wiped clean and their memories lose the power to hurt or haunt them.Īfter having suffered some sort of mental collapse and no longer able to keep up with his farm chores, Emmett Farmer is sent to the workshop of one such binder to live and work as her apprentice. It’s a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Synopsis (from Goodreads): Books are dangerous things in Collins’s alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. ![]()
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