A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

by V.E. Schwab

Ned had the childlike intensity of someone who wanted the world to be stranger than it was, someone who thought they could believe magic into being.

And restlessness had always made her reckless.

“The thing about freedom, Kell? It doesn’t come naturally. Almost no one has it handed to them. I’m free because I fought for it.