Waiting on Wednesday [189] – LABYRINTH LOST by Zoraida Cordova

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine, and is a fun way to share upcoming books that you’re excited about with other bloggers and readers.

So it’s been a while, yeah? I missed the last two WoWs due to having an extremely nasty strain of flu, and during that time (I hate to say this) I actually enjoyed my time away from blogging. As in, I didn’t feel the urge to blog AT ALL. Which scares me, because this blog has been an important part of my life for nearly five years. But I’m jumping back in, testing the waters, so to speak, to see if the spark is still there. Only time will tell, I guess! But in the meantime, here is a book that sounds like a bunch of fun:

Labyrinth LostNothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives.

I fall to my knees. Shattered glass, melted candles and the outline of scorched feathers are all that surround me. Every single person who was in my house – my entire family — is gone.

Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she can’t trust. A boy whose intentions are as dark as the strange markings on his skin.

The only way to get her family back is to travel with Nova to Los Lagos, a land in-between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland…

Beautiful Creatures meets Daughter of Smoke and Bone with an infusion of Latin American tradition in this highly original fantasy adventure.

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Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas #1) by Zoraida Córdova. Releases in September 2016 from Sourcebooks. I love the Day of the Dead vibe going on here, and the story sounds like just my thing. (Whatever “my thing” is right now, I’m honestly not sure what that is!) I haven’t read Córdova’s Vicious Deep series, but I know lots of readers who have enjoyed it.

Let me know what you’re waiting on this week!

Posted March 23, 2016 by Tammy in Waiting on Wednesday / 23 Comments

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23 responses to “Waiting on Wednesday [189] – LABYRINTH LOST by Zoraida Cordova

  1. Labyrinth Lost is on my radar, too. I met Zoraida last year at the Boston Teen Author Festival (and bought the first Vicious Deep book, which I still haven’t read yet but will at some point). But she was very friendly when she signed my copy. Enjoy!
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  2. Becky just featured this one (I think it was last week?), and it was the first time I’d seen it! I like the cover. ;D I hope you enjoy this book when you read it!

    Thanks for visiting my blog! Have a lovely day. 🙂

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    P.S. Welcome back! I’m glad you’re feeling better (don’t leave us!).
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  3. Glad you are feeling better and maybe time away from the blog was just what you needed. I know I sure look forward to seeing your posts so would hate for you to leave it so personally I hope you keep on. I have an ARC of this book, which I couldn’t resist asking for because of the cover and because of the word “witch.” Hopes it as great as it sounds.

    • Tammy

      Thanks Barb! I think a break is good every now and then:-) Lucky you to have an ARC, I hope you love it!

  4. I’ve seen this somewhere but can’t think where – the cover is certainly very eye catching and I like the blurb.
    Good to have you back and hope you’re 100%. I don’t think that having a little break is a bad thing – gives you a chance to sit back and look at things – it can take over a little this whole blogging thing can’t it!
    Lynn 😀

    • Tammy

      Yes, blogging can take over your life if you let it:-) I’m just such a busy person I can’t let it do that to me, but it sure is good to be back:-)

    • Tammy

      I tend to take comparisons with a grain of salt, since many publishers just get it wrong, so I’m totally excited for this one without worry about that blurb:-)

  5. Glad to hear you’re feeling better! I feel ya about lacking the urge to blog. I unintentionally took off the entire month of February. It’s been hard to get back into it but I hope we can both find that spark again. 🙂

    Great pick! I haven’t read anything by this author but I really love the sound of this one.
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