Heavenly Bodies (Heavenly Bodies, #1)

by Imani Erriu

“You feel too much, my darling,” she had whispered to her as a child. “You need to learn to bury it.”

One cannot see clearly through stormy waters,

Reading had calmed her since she was a little girl.

Books were an escape, a way to run away when she was kept behind palace walls.

a reader was an alchemist. They turned the mundane into something extraordinary, transforming words on a page into entire worlds. To steal away from reality, to feel real emotions for something that didn’t exist?

“Sometimes the Light needs the Dark.”