An Unkindness of Magicians (The Unseen World #1)

by Kat Howard

She planned to drag all those dirty little secrets out of the shadows and into the light, and if necessary, the light would be cast by the flames she had lit as she burned the Unseen World to the ground.

But there was a type of terror that didn’t care about reality, a fear that lived in secret places, and it clawed at her soft insides. It clawed harder at night, which was another thing she hated.

“They call me an outsider. Like it’s a title, except a bad one. Because I wasn’t born in a House. House Dee wouldn’t even let me in the door last night, and no one said a word against that. I am the only person with skin darker than pale who is competing in the Turning, and I’d bet every dollar in my bank accounts that I’d be the first black man to be named a House.

That magic was only truly yours if it came from your own pain, your own sacrifice.

She had relearned who she was when there was no one who had the power to force her to be someone else, and then she had decided who she wanted to be.

“Is it that easy, to destroy your home?” Shara asked. “To turn your back on me? All I ever did was make you stronger. It’s because of me you are what you are.” “This was never a home. And I made myself what I am.”