“I’m tired of being special,” Albie said with a shaky laugh. “I’m tired of being celebrated for the worst thing that ever happened to me.”
This is another "thesis statement" moment. If you think about the "chosen ones" of film and literature, the burdens they have to carry (often at a very young age!) are HEAVY. Sloane and her friends are famous for killing a man, full stop. It doesn't matter that he deserved it; it's still a horrible thing to have to do. Can you imagine taking a life at the age of eighteen, and people throw parades for you because of it? Looking at it from Sloane and Albie's perspective, it seems almost grotesque.
I love genre fiction because you can explore things through exaggeration, and find the emotional reality in an unreal situation. A "Dark One" figure destroying the world with magic is not realistic or grounded. But Sloane's feelings about killing him are.
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