Blood Like Magic
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Average rating3.8
“High stakes, big heart, and lots of Black Girl Magic…unputdownable.” —Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys A rich, dark urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. The problem is, she’s never been in love—she’ll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him. After years of waiting for her Calling—a trial every witch must pass to come into their powers—the one thing Voya Thomas didn’t expect was to fail. When Voya’s ancestor gives her an unprecedented second chance to complete her Calling, she agrees—and then is horrified when her task is to kill her first love. And this time, failure means every Thomas witch will be stripped of their magic. Voya is determined to save her family’s magic no matter the cost. The problem is, Voya has never been in love, so for her to succeed, she’ll first have to find the perfect guy—and fast. Fortunately, a genetic matchmaking program has just hit the market. Her plan is to join the program, fall in love, and complete her task before the deadline. What she doesn’t count on is being paired with the infuriating Luc—how can she fall in love with a guy who seemingly wants nothing to do with her? With mounting pressure from her family, Voya is caught between her morality and her duty to her bloodline. If she wants to save their heritage and Luc, she’ll have to find something her ancestor wants more than blood. And in witchcraft, blood is everything.
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2 primary booksBlood Like Magic
Blood Like Magic is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2021 with contributions by Liselle Sambury.
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This book has magic, fantasy, sci-fi elements, a black MC who is very insecure but will do anything for her family, diverse side characters, and ethical dilemmas.
It took me quite a lot to read it as it's quite long and a lot happens. It goes too long on describing so that puts the book to a 4.3 for me.
Basically, the main plot is around Voya who is a black Trinidad teenager waiting for her Calling to become a witch. In this world, magic works with Blood and Intent and when a person reaches puberty, which for witches happens later than to other people, they have a quest, a challenge, some choices to make. If they pass they get magic which an ancestor of them gives, if they fail they'll get magicless forever. Voya is soo enclosure at herself and is very sure she won't pass, and well as we say when you are too negative about something, that may as well happen. But her ancestor gives her a second chance, her task is Destroy your first love. Voya has never been in love, and the only one she thinks could be the one she has to kill is Luc an arrogant guy who she got matched within this futuristic program. Not looking great.
Voya was such an interesting character, I loved her. She goes on and on in inner monologs and dialogues with herself, which in times would make me annoyed, but she was nice. She was very determined and never gave up, and tried to see things in new ways.
It's cool as this book has many twists, and isn't the average fantasy book with a quest. This has soo many challenges and dilemmas mentally. Also, the task is completed in a way which I really liked. It's written pretty well, and it touches down a lot of issues, especially regarding racism but also issues trans people face. Yes, this is set in the future, 2050 to be exact and the world is more advanced than ours technologically (while still no apocalyptic robots and hell) but it's very close to ours as people divide themselves.
Basically, it's a pretty well-written book, with good world-building, and likable characters, while not being cliche and stuff. Romance may seem to be the main thing, but trust me, it's way more than that! Things aren't always bad and good, pure or impure, was the main lesson while also learning to do some stuff for yourself too and take a break sometimes (which Voya really needed).
Also, weird but Voya is 16, like me... but I can't see me in her. She's way more mature and brave than me, I'm basically like a child, lol.
DNF at chapter seven
I love the world. The near futuristic elements is great. I love the non binary and trans rep in this as well, I wish more books would do this
But it's slow. Toooooo slow.
I'm bored. Waiting for the action to happen and when it does it goes right back to dragging. I've forced myself to get as far as I can in this and it's not working for me.
