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    Bruja Born
    Bruja Born
    Bruja Born
    Audiobook8 hours

    Bruja Born

    Written by Zoraida Córdova

    Narrated by Maria Liatis

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    New in the highly lauded Brooklyn Brujas series-Lula must let go of the ghosts of her past to face the actual living dead of her present. Lula Mortiz may be a bruja with healing powers, but after her family's battle in Los Lagos, she feels broken in a way she can't seem to fix. Then tragedy strikes when a bus crash leaves her friends and her boyfriend, Maks, dead. Desperate to reclaim normalcy, Lula invokes a dark spell to bring Maks back. It isn't until she hears that all of the bodies from the crash have gone missing that she realizes something is wrong. Lula has unwittingly raised an army of casi muertos-creatures between the living and dead-and they're hungry for freedom.which they can only achieve if Lula dies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 5, 2018
    ISBN9781501963971
    Author

    Zoraida Córdova

    Zoraida Córdova is the acclaimed author of more than two dozen novels and short stories, including the Brooklyn Brujas series, Star Wars: The High Republic: Convergence, and The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina. In addition to writing novels, she serves on the board of We Need Diverse Books, and is the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Vampires Never Get Old, as well as the cohost of the writing podcast, Deadline City. She writes romance novels as Zoey Castile. Zoraida was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and calls New York City home. When she’s not working, she’s roaming the world in search of magical stories.

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    • 5/5
      Me gustó mucho, volvería otra vez a oírlo muy entretenida
    • 5/5
      This second instalment of the Brooklyn Brujas series was SO MUCH BETTER than the first! Where the first book felt too fast and missed opportunities, BRUJA BORN was WONDERFUL! I felt so much closer to this character, Lula, then I did to Alex. Where Alex was quick-tempered, Lula was thoughtful. She felt how things would affect not just herself, but her family, which was one of the things that I didn't like about Alex, but all three of the sisters seem to have grown in this book.

      Lula, the oldest of the Mortiz sisters, has just been broken up with before boarding the bus to the district championship soccer game with her friends and teammates. On the way to the game, there is a terrible accident and everyone is killed except for Lula. In the hospital, she and her sisters stop death from coming for Macks, Lula's (ex) boyfriend and create a much bigger problem than 28 dead teenagers-they end up keeping them all from fully dying and creating an army of "casimuertos" or non-dead people who live off of human hearts and can't pass on. Lula has to figure out how to help these casimiertos move on from this world BEFORE they destroy all of New York, and free Lady de la Muerte-Lady Death-who is trapped between worlds.

      The whole "having to find the Spear of Death" piece of the story honestly felt a bit unnecessary, but I see how it made the family and community have to come together to help Lula. The scenes leading up to finding the spear and returning it to La Muerte felt rushed, but great and anticipatory nonetheless.

      Overall, the book had a very familiar feel as the movie Practical Magic, but with more culture and history embedded which I appreciated. Strong female lead characters, a great family theme, and plenty of magic gave this book five stars. My favorite thing about this book that the first didn't have was how there are other magical groups at play in New York that are both for regulatory purposes but also that help keep the non-magical people safe as well as some hinting as to where Lula and Alex' father was while he was "gone."

      Zoraida Cordova outdid herself with this story; my only complaint is having to wait for the next one!
    • 5/5
      What do you get when you mix old school magic, modern-day Brooklyn, and the cautions of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein?You get the miracle that is Zoraida Cordova’s Bruja Born, that’s what.Bruja Born is the second book in Cordova’s Brooklyn Brujas series and it blew the first out of the water. Without going into spoilers, the story opens where the first left off. What you need to know, the book opens on three sisters reeling from their most recent adventure to a place they definitely had no place being. As with all magic, there is a price and, unfortunately, that price has come to collect.The tough part about paying the price for magic, though, is that it always leaves the user wishing for more. More comfort, more peace, more time.The ripple effect from their previous actions lands all three Mortiz sisters back in hot water, scrambling, once again, to make things right. Unfortunately, this time they’re up against Death, herself, and she doesn’t play around.Bruja Born is a fast-paced dance, choreographed as a battle between life and death, each one inching closer to the other and then flitting away, only to be sucked back into the center of a deadly fray, fighting for countless souls.Only Cordova could write a modern gothic horror story and still have my heart. Y’all should know by now, that I am not big on the undead but, again, there is something so compelling readable about her stories that the zombie overtones barely matter.Because this is number two, and not simply a sequel, I have to assume there will be more beyond the last page of Bruja Born. Labirynth Lost (number one) was told through middle sister Alex’s eyes and this second installment was told via the older of the three Motiz sisters, Lula. My hope is that youngest sister, Rose, will get her chance in round three. I guess it’s safe to say that this little family has my heart if I’m hoping for their fictional wellbeing.If you haven’t started this series, I highly recommend it. Thank me, later.