"I couldn't shut out the screams" (Chapter 1, p. 3).

"Vail. Home. My heart hammered against my rib cage, making it difficult to breathe. Why am I here?" (Chapter 4, Kindle Locations 439-440).

"The door Adne opened this time revealed a landscape I'd known my whole life. The snow-covered slope sparkled under the afternoon sun, cut at intervals by the shadows of towering pines" (Chapter 6, Kindle Locations 1161-1163).

"We'd learned too many truths, turned over rocks that I wished still hid the ugliness beneath them. I'd known my masters were cruel, but now I had to face their real nature: the Keepers didn't just use the forces of the Nether, they'd willingly bound themselves to its darkness" (Chapter 9, pg. Kindle Locations 1679-1681).

"Something about his words made me falter, like I'd tripped in the darkness and was suddenly falling, falling. And then it wasn't Shay above me, but Ren"
(Chapter 11, Kindle...