Blood Like Magic

By: Liselle Sambury

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

“High stakes, big heart, and lots of Black Girl Magic…unputdownable.” (Aiden Thomas, New York Times best-selling author of Cemetery Boys)

A rich, dark urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. The problem is, she’s never been in love - she’ll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him.

After years of waiting for her Calling - a trial every witch must pass to come into their powers - the one thing Voya Thomas didn’t expect was to fail. When Voya’s ancestor gives her an unprecedented second chance to complete her Calling, she agrees - and then is horrified when her task is to kill her first love. And this time, failure means every Thomas witch will be stripped of their magic.

Voya is determined to save her family’s magic no matter the cost. The problem is, Voya has never been in love, so for her to succeed, she’ll first have to find the perfect guy - and fast. Fortunately, a genetic matchmaking program has just hit the market. Her plan is to join the program, fall in love, and complete her task before the deadline. What she doesn’t count on is being paired with the infuriating Luc - how can she fall in love with a guy who seemingly wants nothing to do with her?

With mounting pressure from her family, Voya is caught between her morality and her duty to her bloodline. If she wants to save their heritage and Luc, she’ll have to find something her ancestor wants more than blood. And in witchcraft, blood is everything.

©2021 Liselle Sambury. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Amazing Story

Loved it from beginning to end. Definitely would recommend for readers interested in Black centered stories with magic themes. Definitely would read any follow on stories to this and other titles from the author.

Production wise, very well narrated. Would definitely listen to other titles done by this narrator.

Excellent story, writing, and narrating!!

Literally everything about this book and the audiobook narration is fabulous. A must read! Love it!

I see why this book was rated so highly!

I truly enjoyed this book! The storyline was thrilling and kept me on the edge of my seat. I didn't want to stop listening once I started! Ready to read the next in the series. Great writing!

Beautiful Sci-Fi accurately depicting culture

Love this!! I hope to read more from the artist. The story was so captivating. A true masterpiece!!

This book was so good!

The journey was Amazing! The author did a fantastic job of bringing us into this world. I loved the world building and the seeds that were planted along the way. The chapters are diverse and real. I'm trying to be patient about waiting for the next book. the cover art is gorgeous as well.

had me on my toes the whole time!

I am use to figuring out what will happen in books early on, but this one surprised me time and time again. It also has some really interesting deep themes.

my little gay heart loved all the LGBT representation! it was very well done and made me smile. highly recommend for teens and adults

Wow wow wow

What is there not to like about this book ? The narrator was amazing. Her performance is always too tier. The author really did something right with this one. Magic, love, Caribbean culture, food, family and a plot twist no one was prepared for. I literally fell in love with the characters and felt like I was part of the Thomas family. I laugh, cried and everything in between. Buy this book you won’t regret it!!

It's a good one!

World building is rough and having so much of it in the beginning was like eating a PBJ sandwich with nothing to wash it down. I definitely dazed out a few times and even put it away for a few hours.

But when it started to get good, it was good, even when it was repetitive at times. I loved the twist at the end. I saw it coming but didn't. I'd say it was just right.

I honestly didn't like the narrator's voice, and it seems I'm the only one. She performed well, don't get me wrong. I got used to her inflections but I wouldn't choose it if i could. I'd take another voice for the second book.

Something about her voice made it even more evident that this is 16 year old girl. A lot of people don't like the character for her indecisiveness but she's 16. It makes sense! It's like we forget how annoying we were at that age lol.

All in all, it was pretty good! I wish I could picture some of the characters better, like Luke (sp?) but my mind didn't seem to find an image. I'm not sure why but that bothered me.

More like this!

I really loved this story. It reminded me so much of my family and my grandma. It also helps I love witches.

Ammmmaaaaazing

I literally listened to this while I was at work, on the train, and decided to walk instead of taking the bus... this read was inspirational to brown women and girls thank you