The Atlas Six (Atlas Series Book 1)

incendiary

It is a troubled world we live in, ever on the brink of progress and regression,

irascibly

Some people are taking too much, making themselves sick, and it kills them. The excess is poison; even food is a poison to someone who’s been deprived. Everything has the capacity to turn toxic.

“A flaw of humanity,” said Parisa, shrugging as they walked. “The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness.”

détentes

but Reina had never been overly thrilled by the prospect of living in the same place in perpetuity.

“Recognize it? Yes, certainly. An enormous magical event,”

The world was mostly entropy and chaos; magic, then, was order, because it was control.