Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

by Leigh Bardugo

Why raise children on the promise of magic? Why create a want in them that can never be satisfied—for revelation, for transformation—and then set them adrift in a bleak, pragmatic world?

“Don’t die. Try not to be an asshole,” Turner said. “That’s the oath. Let’s get on with it.”

I think I’ve been waiting my whole life for the moment someone would see something in me that wasn’t ordinary.”