The Ruin of Angels (Craft Sequence, #6)

by Max Gladstone

“Frustrating,” Ley said, “is how I’d sum up the whole story. Heroism, grim last stands against adversity, and what’s left? A wasteland of orphan myths begging to serve anyone who will feed them—millions of voices that barely remember flesh, promising freedom and power and all sorts of things they think matter, if only you let them make you into something you aren’t. Myth taints even warded ground. So, out here, every time you cross a threshold, you get caught in some damn story.”