The Devils (The Devils, #1)

by Joe Abercrombie

“You’re a vampire,” snapped Brother Diaz. “Of course you hate the Church.” “On the contrary, I am a great admirer of the tenets of your religion. I merely find it a shame that the Saved are, as a rule, so little like their Saviour.”

But you don’t always get to choose where you fight. Sometimes the fight finds you, and you have to meet it as you are.

All Alex could do was keep edging back, and hope Sunny could see a way to get them out of this. Sunny could see no way to get them out of this.

“Happy endings are just stories that aren’t finished yet.”

Brother Diaz gaped. He’d often boasted that his monastery’s library held a thousand books, and knew he’d been stretching the truth. He struggled to picture what one hundred thousand might look like. Imagine the index alone! Sweet Saviour, what system of sliding ladders might they employ?

“A good twist, once revealed, should seem obvious all along. Should seem … inevitable, even.”