The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons #1)

by Jenn Lyons

Like all people caught between two worlds, he hated and longed for both.

Walk away, if you want. Surdyeh’s stories would say that I’m giving you a gift. You say it’s a curse. I’ll tell you something not one in a thousand would-be-heroes ever realize: it’s both, and always will be.

Demons and monsters are obvious; we’ll always band together to fight them off. But real evil, insidious evil, is what lets us just walk away from another person’s pain and say, well, that’s none of my business.”