A Wicked Magic
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Publisher Description
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The Craft when modern witches must save teens stolen by an ancient demon in this YA fantasy-thriller debut.
Dan and Liss are witches. The Black Book granted them that power. Harnessing that power feels good, especially when everything in their lives makes them feel powerless.
During a spell gone wrong, Liss's boyfriend is snatched away by an evil entity and presumed dead. Dan and Liss's friendship dies that night, too. How can they practice magic after the darkness that they conjured?
Months later, Liss discovers that her boyfriend is alive, trapped underground in the grips of an ancient force. She must save him, and she needs Dan and the power of The Black Book to do so. Dan is quickly sucked back into Liss's orbit and pushes away her best friend, Alexa. But Alexa has some big secrets she's hiding and her own unique magical disaster to deal with.
When another teenager disappears, the girls know it's no coincidence. What greedy magic have they awakened? And what does it want with these teens it has stolen?
Set in the atmospheric wilds of California's northern coast, Sasha Laurens's thrilling debut novel is about the complications of friendship, how to take back power, and how to embrace the darkness that lives within us all.
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In the remote towns of North Coast, Calif., best friends and high school sophomores Daniela and Elisabeth find an unassuming black book containing "A Spell for the Making of Naive Witches." Underestimating the forces at play, Liss and Dan inadvertently summon a creature that steals Liss's boyfriend, Johnny Su, leaving their friendship shattered and entangling them in a dangerous game that spans decades. Nearly 10 months later, shortly before another teen disappears, Liss makes contact with Johnny, who's been kept captive underground by a devious supernatural entity, and enlists Dan's help to rescue him. Unbeknownst to Liss and Dan, Dan's new friend Alexa is contending with her own magical awakening and its fallout. With magic and mystery at the fore, Laurens hooks readers' attention while thoughtfully developing each of the three protagonists, all of whom have secrets beyond their magic: Dan hides her depression and self-harm; Liss's self-hatred, compulsions, and insecurity drive her to make reckless, self-sabotaging choices; and Alexa's trauma and fear of abandonment leave her feeling alone and afraid to seek help. Deftly plotted, with engaging, realistic characters, this paranormal debut has appreciable depth. Ages 14 up.
