A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, #1)

by Roseanne A. Brown

To listen to a griot was to enter a new world, one where heroes danced across the heavens with spirits in their wake and gods churned mountains into being with a flick of their wrists.

This is what a good storyteller is capable of.

But best of all, no one knew who Karina was.

Having an Aladdin moment, are we?

He had listened when they said that all he had to do was try a little harder, just be a little less of what he was to make everything easier for everyone. He had trusted them. And they had been wrong.

Oof.

He’d never been crazy. He’d been right.

Doesn’t really make it better, though, does it?

Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be kind in a world as cruel as ours.”

Isn’t that the truth.