There's so much great humor along with fabulous magic, action, heartwrenching stakes and exciting adventure. Maya is very much part of a team in this series, and I adored her two best friends, Frankie and Eli, even more in this second adventure - but I also love their whole wider community, full of people who all feel important and real in a fantastically quirky way. (Even Sue the T-Rex in the Field Museum gets to have a turn in this story!) Even if I'd never visited Chicago myself, though, I would have loved how fantastically vivid the setting is, and the series is chock-full of wonderful characters I care about. I love this series, this heroine, and her whole community so much! One detail that's particularly fun for me on a personal level is that it's set in Chicago (a city I've spent time in at lots of points across my life), so I love getting to recognize so many great details in the scenes set on Earth. Even if that means teaming up with their greatest enemies, the darkbringers.
And this time, Maya and her friends will need all the help they can get. The Lord of Shadows is mobilizing his forces for an all-out war against the human world. But when Maya and her friends discover that something went terribly wrong during their journey to bring her father back to the human world, they are forced to return to The Dark and restore what they left behind, the one thing keeping the veil from falling: her father’s soul. Now a guardian in training, Maya spends her days patching up veils with her father and cleaning up near-disasters like baby wormholes that her erratic powers create. And even worse, Maya’s orisha powers as a godling are out of control. After crossing the veil between the two worlds, saving her father, and narrowly escaping the sinister clutches of the Lord of Shadows, tensions between the human world and The Dark are higher than ever. The threat from The Dark is far from over. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky and Willia of the Wood.
In this highly anticipated sequel, Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father's soul.
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