City of Saints & Thieves

paperback, 432 pages

Published May 8, 2018 by Speak.

ISBN:
978-0-399-54759-1
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Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.

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A really thrilling and well written story.

My favorite quotes from the book:

Question: What is worth more than diamonds and gold? What is the most stable currency? What thing, when stolen, becomes most dangerous and precious of all? Answer: a secret.

What do they have in common? Well, they're good thieves, of course, or they wouldn't be famous. But the other thing that ties them all together is what made them thieves and outlaws in the first place: They all have their own little monsters caged up inside of them. Furies that urge them toward blood. Scaly, clawed things that were born in that moment when the world went so wrong that anything was possible, even the creation of monsters.

[They] are going to kill you. And then they'll kill me. And then they'll go back and kill you again just to make sure you got the message.