- Magic, fiction, Witches, fiction, Supernatural, fiction, Family, fiction
I was chosen by the Deos. Even gods make mistakes. Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo she can’t trust, but who may be Alex’s only chance at saving her family.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Zoraida Córdova
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Turtleback, Recorded Books, LLC, Planeta Minotauro
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780606399944
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Zoraida Córdova is the author of many fantasy novels for kids and teens, most recently the award-winning *Brooklyn Brujas* series, *Incendiary*, and *Star Wars: A Crash of Fate*. Her short fiction has appeared in the New York Times bestselling anthology *Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View*, *Come on In: 15 Stories About Immigration and Finding Home*, and *Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft*. She is the co-editor of *Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite*. Her debut middle grade novel is *The Way to Rio Luna*. She is the co-host of the podcast Deadline City with Dhonielle Clayton. Zoraida was born in Ecuador and raised in Queens, New York. When she isn’t working on
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