The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

by V.E. Schwab

For the ones who still believe in magic

But Tes couldn’t just see the threads of power. She could touch them. Pluck a string as if it were an instrument and not the fabric of the world. Find the frayed ends of a fractured spell, trace the lines of broken magic and mend them.

A head gets lost, but a heart knows home.

“Admit it,” said Kell Maresh. “I caught you off guard.” Lila shrugged. “I still would have killed you, in the end.”

“But I’ve found that people are fools. Showing them your power is like showing them your hand at cards. Make them guess at it instead, and they’ll almost always guess wrong.”