Finished reading: Dead Beat (Ninth House Series, 3) by Leigh Bardugo 📚

I love this whole trilogy so much. I love how Leigh Bardugo always manages to leave me with a sense of hope, even in a series where there is so much active evil in the world.

📚🗨️ “That was the gift of coming from nothing. You learned to work with what you had.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat

The movies loved cold-eyed assassins and flinty lone wolves. But the world needed people who wept and fought on, saps and suckers and fools who had their hearts broken but kept loving anyway, women who knew how to work magic with nothing but water and flour, a little salt, and a will that could grind iron to dust.

Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat 📚🗨️

📚🗨️ “There was something embarrassing about dying as a sophomore. It just lacked dignity.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat

📚🗨️ “She wanted to hide in the dark and let someone else sort it all out.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat

📚🗨️ “Maybe that was the secret truth of courage. You didn’t face danger; you just got used to it.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat

Finished reading: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo 📚

A re-read. I just love Leigh Bardugo’s work. So. Much.

📚🗨️ “He’d been washed up on a familiar shore, but the sea had changed him.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

📚🗨️ “You had to decide who you were willing to go to war for and who you trusted to jump into the fray for you. That was all there was in this world. No heroes or villains, just the people you’d brave the waves for, and the ones you’d let drown.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

📚🗨️ “She’d never liked that phrase, diamond in the rough. All that meant was they had to cut you again and again to let the light in.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent