The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

by Luanne G. Smith

Besides, she rarely meant the terrible things that came first to her mind. It was just the flint and spark of discharging flighty emotions. It was either that or let them get bottled up inside her, waiting to explode at an inopportune moment.

Memories were malleable. Changeable. Unreliable, wispy things. Magic couldn’t change that.

Even though the couplets are written by mortals, their words still have power. You see it in the way they’re able to move hearts and minds by putting words together in the right order. If a mortal has the power to move a human’s emotions with mere words, that’s an alchemy all its own.

Such lunacy to hold on to so much aching and want, only to have it answered with repulsion and rejection.

“What does one ever need books for? To read what is not already in the head.