#I'd love a good corruption arc particularly as the other goes through a redemption arc

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I just finished The Return of the Thief and am currently suffering whiplash because this book is very much about subtext and what's going on out of sight and politics and the next book I picked up was

I speak to animals, so does my sister. We're both magical but we have a secret special magic that no one can know about because it might be evil(tm). My sister thinks we should dominate animals but I think we should be equals that may be why I got my magical sidekick first. Also there's a goddess of light and her sister the goddess of darkness waged a war against her. Also our whole country is in turmoil because our imperial leader was ousted by her sister who is cruel and is destroying our history and symbology of us magic users.

I'm 20 pages in, if this book doesn't subvert some tropes I SWEAR

I'm refusing to look up reviews.