Shadow's Edge (Night Angel, #2)

by Brent Weeks

desperation changed nothing. Being forced into the Warrens was a death sentence.

Little girls should be playing with dolls—why hadn’t he ever given Uly a doll?—not fishing bodies out of rivers.

Ariel, the distracted, oblivious genius, big brain and bigger Talent and nothing else.

Durzo had never considered himself the best; he just thought everyone else was worse than he was.

All the things Vi had always hated about women were suddenly showing up in herself.

But in the face of that horror, courage was irrelevant. The brave and the cowardly, the high and the low, the good and the bad died alike.