A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)

by V.E. Schwab

“Maybe not for you,” said the king. “But time isn’t the same for the mad and the blind.”

Those who could move bones could move bodies.

Looking for trouble, he’d say. You’re gonna look till you find it. Trouble is the looker, she’d answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first. Why do you want to die? I don’t, she’d say. I just want to live.

But the thing about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn’t really want to know. They thought they did, but knowing only made them miserable.

But hunger—for energy, for life—did things to people. Made them do things.