It’s good to be back… even if I can’t stay. I blink the tears away as a bass-filled trunk rattles by, blasting some rapper whose name I can’t remember. Separated, living in different places.īut not today. One year ago today, Moms died, shot dead on her stoop.
She-like me-probably couldn’t sleep, knowing we had to face today. Any moment Tasha will step out, her tie-dye drawstring knapsack on her back and her purple fuzzy phone clutched in her fingers. A yawn scratches at my throat, but my lungs refuse to breathe. Up all night, I watched the sun rise like a traitor to the chill set in my bones. Metal slats chill my legs and I shimmy sideways, craning for a better view from the bus stop, careful to keep the onyx stones fused to my wrists covered.
Excerptīut if they did, chances are one would have mine. Rue must embrace her true identity and wield the full magnitude of her ancestors’ power to save her neighborhood before the gods burn it to the ground. Worse still, evidence mounts that the evil plaguing East Row is the same one that lurks in Ghizon-an evil that will stop at nothing until it has stolen everything from her and everyone she loves. And her sister, Tasha, is in danger of falling sway to the very forces that claimed their mother’s life.
Miserable and desperate to see her sister on the anniversary of their mother’s death, Rue breaks Ghizon’s sacred Do Not Leave Law and returns to Houston, only to discover that Black kids are being forced into crime and violence. Rue is the only half-god, half-human there, where leaders protect their magical powers at all costs and thrive on human suffering. Rue’s taken from her neighborhood by the father she never knew, forced to leave her little sister behind, and whisked away to Ghizon-a hidden island of magic wielders. But when her mother is shot dead on her doorstep, life for her and her younger sister changes forever. “Make a way out of no way” is just the way of life for Rue. Perfect for fans of Angie Thomas, Tomi Adeyemi, and The Hunger Games! In this riveting, keenly emotional debut fantasy, a Black teen from Houston has her world upended when she learns about her godly ancestry and must save both the human and god worlds. “A remarkable, breathtaking, earthshaking, poetic thrillride.” -Daniel Jo sé Older, New York Times bestselling author of Shadowshaper
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