When Among Crows - Veronica Roth

\nStep into a city where monsters feast on human emotions, knights split their souls to make their weapons, and witches always take more than they give. \n \nPain is Dymitr's calling. To slay the monsters he's been raised to kill, he had to split his soul in half to make a sword from his own spine. Every time he draws it, he gets blood on his hands. \n \nPain is Ala's inheritance. When her mother died, a family curse to witness horrors committed by the Holy Order was passed onto her. The curse will claim her life, as it did her mother's, unless she can find a cure. \n \nOne fateful night in Chicago, Dymitr comes to Ala with a bargain: her help in finding the legendary witch Baba Jaga in exchange for an enchanted flower that just might cure her. Desperate, and unaware of what Dymitr really is, Ala agrees. \n \nBut they only have one day before the flower dies . . . and Ala's hopes of breaking the curse along with it. \n \nLovely, lush, and full of otherworldly longing, this modern fairy tale is Roth at her most imaginative and ethereal.--OLIVIE BLAKE, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six\n