Rena Barron grew up in small-town Alabama where stories of magic and adventure sparked her imagination. 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. Published on Septemby HMH Books for Young Readers With her friends-Eli, Frankie, Zeran, and Eleni-by her side, Maya leads the charge in an epic showdown that takes her across worlds and to the edge of the universe.Happy Tuesday and welcome to my stop on the MAYA AND THE RISING DARK blog blitz! I’m so excited because today I get to shine a spotlight on this wonderful book for you! This book is truly amazing and I’m so so excited to for you to find out more about MAYA AND THE RISING DARK and Rena Barron! She must face the Lord of Shadows or risk losing everything. 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. Despite everything Maya and her father have done, the veil that protects the human world is failing. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 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.
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