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Kingdom of Souls

Barron, Rena

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HarperCollins

Just the Series: Kingdom of Souls Vol. 1

Annotation: Disappointing her family of powerful witch doctors because of her lack of abilities, Arrah makes the difficult choice to sacrifice years of her life for scraps of magic to uncover why children are going missing throughout the city.

Genre: [Fantasy fiction]

Reviews: 2

Catalog Number: #306258

Format: Perma-Bound Edition

Publisher: HarperCollins

Edition Date: 2020 Release Date: 08/11/20

Pages: 485 pages

ISBN: Publisher: 0-06-287096-3 Perma-Bound: 0-8000-0627-5

ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-06-287096-4 Perma-Bound: 978-0-8000-0627-3

Dewey: Fic

Dimensions: 21 cm.

Subject Heading:
Magic. Fiction.
Missing children. Fiction.
Demonology. Fiction.

Language: English

Reviews:

Kirkus Reviews

A teenage girl ashamed of her lack of magic must step up when she discovers evil at work in her kingdom.Privileged Arrah has never wanted for anything—except magic. Though she comes from powerful magical lineages on both her parents' sides, when she turns 16 without developing any gifts, she must finally admit she won't be blessed with magic. Heartbroken, Arrah throws herself into discovering who's behind the recent child abductions in her kingdom. The magic needed to accomplish such a task has a high cost, and her discovery of the culprit proves to be a devastating revelation. In Arrah's West African-based world, there are orishas as well as other gods and demons, and orishas are able to converse directly with humans. Arrah, aided by her friends (including love interest Rudjek), must mine hitherto unknown depths in herself in order to stop the ascension of the Demon King, who supposedly was vanquished by the orishas long ago. Though the pace is sometimes slow and the page count perhaps higher than needed, Arrah's a compelling heroine, relatable in her fallibility, and her story is intriguing. Most characters are black; Rudjek is biracial (his light-skinned mother and a handful of other characters hail from the north).An imperfect but promising series opener. (Fantasy. 12-18)

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Word Count: 131,347

Reading Level: 5.4

Interest Level: 7-12

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.4 / points: 20.0 / quiz: 506578 / grade: Upper Grades

Lexile: HL740L

A girl with no gifts must bargain for the power to fight her own mother’s dark schemes—even if the price is her life.

Crackling with dark magic, unspeakable betrayal, and daring twists you won’t see coming, this explosive YA fantasy debut is a can’t-miss, high-stakes epic perfect for fans of Legendborn, Strange the Dreamer, and Children of Blood and Bone.

“Magnetic and addictive. This book is black girl magic at its finest.”—New York Times bestselling author Dhonielle Clayton

Heir to two lines of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. Yet she fails at bone magic, fails to call upon her ancestors, and fails to live up to her family’s legacy. Under the disapproving eye of her mother, the Kingdom’s most powerful priestess and seer, she fears she may never be good enough.

But when the Kingdom’s children begin to disappear, Arrah is desperate enough to turn to a forbidden, dangerous ritual. If she has no magic of her own, she’ll have to buy it—by trading away years of her own life.

Arrah’s borrowed power reveals a nightmarish betrayal, and on its heels, a rising tide of darkness that threatens to consume her and all those she loves. She must race to unravel a twisted and deadly scheme… before the fight costs more than she can afford.

Set in a richly imagined world inspired by whispered tales of voodoo and folk magic, Rena Barron’s captivating debut is the beginning of a thrilling saga about a girl caught between gods, monsters, and the gift and the curse of power.

“Masterful.” —SLJ (starred review)

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