The Gifts That Bind Us (All Our Hidden Gifts, #2)

by Caroline O'Donoghue

This is what they’ve got? Hot twenty-year-olds and hate doctrine? Who cares?

Immediately, I know that Manon was right. I know that spells cast in cruelty only pay in kind, and that every piece of magic you call on has to be done for the right reasons.

“Magic loves sex,” she says. “What? Why?” “Because it’s natural. Because it’s the opposite of control. Because it drives men crazy. Because it gives women an income. Because everything that hates magic also hates sex.”

It strikes me that a witch, a minor god, and a former zealot all living together for two weeks is a reality show I would pay to watch.

People who know magic really know it, understand that it is never worth it to kill someone in magic’s name. The curse is too bad, the karma too toxic.