A truly #BlackGirlMagic, cloudy-day, curl-up kind of book." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ★ "Astonishing series of subsequent revelations leaves readers agog, eager to know how Maya and her pals will use their powers to heal the veil and save their mostly black and brown neighborhood. She just hopes she can do it in time to attend Comic-Con before summer’s over.
But now that the veil is failing, the Lord of Shadows is determined to destroy the human world and it’s up to Maya to stop him. Maya herself is a godling, half orisha and half human, and her neighborhood is a safe haven. Her father is the guardian of the veil between our world and the Dark-where an army led by the Lord of Shadows, the man from Maya’s nightmares, awaits. When Papa goes missing, Maya is thrust into a world both strange and familiar as she uncovers the truth. But to Maya, it sounds like something from one of Papa’s stories or her favorite comics. Her friends try to find an explanation-perhaps a ghost uprising or a lunchroom experiment gone awry. Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her South Side Chicago neighborhood who witnesses weird occurrences like werehyenas stalking the streets at night and a scary man made of shadows plaguing her dreams. Perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the End of Time and The Serpent’s Secret.
She must face the Lord of Shadows or risk losing everything.In this highly anticipated contemporary fantasy, twelve-year-old Maya’s search for her missing father puts her at the center of a battle between our world, the Orishas, and the mysterious and sinister Dark world. But when an attack hits close to home, Maya doesn’t have any more time to prepare. She’s honing her guardian powers, with the help of two new allies-her long lost guardian sister and a mysterious darkbringer (who might be a double agent). Maya and her friends aren’t going down without a fight. And it’s only a matter of time before he breaks through the veil and destroys Maya’s neighborhood and the rest of the world.
The Lord of Shadows has raised an army powerful enough to challenge the orishas. In the thrilling third and final book in the acclaimed Maya and the Rising Dark trilogy that Kirkus calls “truly #BlackGirlMagic,” Maya must face off with the Lord of Shadows to save the human world from impending war with the Dark.ĭespite everything Maya and her father have done, the veil that protects the human world is failing. Clarion Books (a division of HarperCollins)
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