Part of Brooklyn Brujas
First published 2018
Lula Mortiz survived the battle in Los Lagos, but she came out of it feeling shattered. When a bus crash kills her friends and her boyfriend Maks, she does what any bruja desperate enough might do: she reaches for a spell that should not be touched. Maks comes back. So does everyone else who died in that crash. They are not quite dead and not quite alive, and they have a name: casi muertos. They are also hungry. The only thing standing between them and freedom is Lula's life. Now she has to figure out how to undo what she started before the creatures she raised finish what the crash began. Lula has healing magic, but she cannot heal her way out of this. She built the trap herself, and she is the only one who can dismantle it. Bruja Born is the second book in Zoraida Córdova's Brooklyn Brujas series, a story about grief, bad decisions made for good reasons, and the cost of pulling someone back from the other side.
Genres: fantasy, horror, supernatural, young-adult, dark-fantasy, urban-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, grief-stricken, haunting, suspenseful
Tropes: consequences-of-magic, found-family, protagonist-caused-conflict, second-chance-romance
Setting: Los Lagos, Brooklyn
336 pages · Hardcover · Sourcebooks Fire
Content warnings: death