Voya has a vision of a deadly catastrophe, and Luc may be responsible for it. Some are powerful, some are silly, and some are outright dangerous, and something is causing those gifts to go haywire. If that weren’t complicated enough, something weird is happening to the witches of Toronto. Justin, Luc’s supposedly dead father, is stuck inside a NuSap (an android body) and haunts the Thomas house as he plots a way out. Her grandmother’s clients are dropping their contracts as Voya struggles to figure out her grandmother’s secret recipe for their famously high-quality products. The ancestors aren’t speaking to Voya, and neither is Keis, her former best friend who is now permanently trapped inside the family home. The adults are too busy squabbling with each other over decades-old grievances to take orders from someone they considered a child not too long ago. Voya is the new Matriarch of her family, but leading is harder than it looks. Now with Blood Like Fate, those consequences come home to roost.

With some finagling, she spares Luc’s life, but at great cost to his and her families. In the first book, Blood Like Magic, Voya was presented with an impossible task: in order to pass her Calling she must kill her first love. Centuries ago, her ancestors escaped slavery in the US and made their way north, first to Nova Scotia and then to Ontario. Her family, the Thomases, is one of the original founding witch families in Canada.

Blood Like Fate, Liselle Sambury ( McElderry 978-1-53446-531-2, $19.99, 480pp, hc) August 2022.Ī young adult fantasy set in the near future that blends technology and magic? Yes ma’am! Liselle Sambury’s Blood Like Magic duology tells the story of Voya, a teen witch in Toronto in the mid-21st century.

Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury