The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson

The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn JohnsonA girl matches wits with a war god in this kaleidoscopic, epic tale of oppression and the cost of peace, where stories hide within other stories, and narrative has the power to heal or to burn everything in its path. In the winding underground tunnels of the Library, the great celestial peacekeeper of the three systems, a terrible secret lies buried. As the daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring the Library's ever

Only the sassy trainer in her cut-offs and cowgirl boots quickly gets under my skin

The closer he ventures into the inner circle of Carthmute House

Humans and Spirits

he offers her an impossible deal: If she becomes his private assassin and eliminates his political rivals—whose deaths he swears would be for the good of both their worlds and would protect her people from further brutalization—her family will never starve or suffer harm again

Left alone with only her own reflection for company

as predicted by a seer

quickly becomes obsessed with the fascinating nature of Sir Edward’s business: spinning silk with a rare and magical breed of spiders

I keep my head down

she is nearly invincible

When Savannah's therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens she agrees to go clutching tightly to the unread journal her sister left behind

Princess Ying Yue believed in love

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