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She's the only divine thing he's ever believed in. The only creature in this vast, cruel land who could kill him. And sometimes, in his loveliest dreams, he imagines she does.
R.F. KUANG / The Drowning Faith
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STAR CHILD, ARE YOU LISTENING?
MARA MENDOZA has a scar running down her cheek from when a Fury used her own knife against her, and she swears that is the last time metal will ever graze her skin. She is fourteen and learns that in a world populated with the mortal and divine, she is a demigod where her father's ichor courses in tandem with blood like venom in her veins.
Forged from the fire and rubble of Hephaestus' vengeful craftsmanship, Mara knows only of violence. The kind of violence that renders her all bloodied knuckles and scuffed elbows. One drilled into her bones the minute her father hands her the metal knife and tells her to feel it, and then aim. The violence is blazing, it's alive, and it makes striking the bullseye feel as easy as breathing.
