2023/089: The Cost of All Things — Maggie Lehrman

2023/089: The Cost of All Things — Maggie Lehrman

“If you really loved him, you would’ve wanted the memories and the pain. You excused yourself from being a human being.” [p. 285]

A hekamist can sell you a spell that'll give you what you want -- or what you think you want. Ari's boyfriend Win has just died, and she can't bear the grief, so she buys a spell to make her forget him. She doesn't tell the hekamist that she's already had a spell, years ago, to alleviate the trauma of her parents' death in a fire. And spells ... well, spells react with one another. ( Read more... )