Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)

by Tomi Adeyemi

“They don’t hate you, my child. They hate what you were meant to become.”

He wants to believe that playing by the monarchy’s rules will keep us safe, but nothing can protect us when those rules are rooted in hate.

I shouldn’t be asking when things got this bad. I should ask why I ever thought things had gotten better.