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autumnsaesthetics · 8 months

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🎃 Horror Books For Halloween 🎃

Part One!

(Row One) 🎃

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

We Don't Swim Here by Vincent Tirado

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

(Row Two) 🎃

She Is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

The Haunting Of Alejandra by V. Castro

(Row Three) 🎃

The Getaway by Lamar Giles

Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

House Of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

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caribeandthebooks · 1 month

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Caribe's New Works by Black Authors TBR - Part 1

Category: Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction & Science Fiction

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bigdreamsandwildthings · 9 months

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This book haul sums up my reading tastes well 👻💜

#booklr #book photography #book picture #book haul #delicious monsters #liselle sambury #business or pleasure #rachel lynn solomon #bookworm #bibliophile #ya fiction #ya horror #na fiction #book community #book aesthetic #book lover #book nerd #my photos #mine

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bensbooks · 6 months

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Upcoming in 2024: Tender Beasts

With the death of Sunny’s mother, matriarch of the wealthy Behre family, Sunny’s once picture-perfect life is thrown into turmoil. Her mother had groomed her to be the family’s next leader, so Sunny is confused when the only instructions her mother leaves is a mysterious “Take care of Dom.” The problem is, her youngest brother, Dom, has always been a near-stranger to Sunny… and seemingly a dangerous one, if found guilty of his second-degree murder charge. Still, Sunny is determined to fulfill her mother’s dying wish. But when a classmate is gruesomely murdered, and Sunny finds her brother with blood on his hands, her mother’s simple request becomes a lot more complicated. Dom swears he’s innocent, and although Sunny isn’t sure she believes him, she takes it upon herself to look into the murder—made all the more urgent by the discovery of another body. And another. As Sunny and Dom work together to track down the culprit, Sunny realizes her other siblings have their own dark secrets. Soon she may have to preserve the family she’s always loved or protect the brother she barely knows—and risk losing everything her mother worked so hard to build.

Tender Beasts is a young adult fantasy horror, set for release February 27!

#books #booklr #bookblr #upcoming book #liselle sambury #tender beasts

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blackchildrensbooksandauthors · 1 year

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📖Delicious Monsters

Liselle Sambury

Margaret K. McElderry Books

YA Books

Ages: 14+

Pages: 512

#our stories matter #ya thrillers #ya ghost stories #liselle sambury #black authors

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chanelslibrary · 3 months

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🌙𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰🌙

Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Voya has finally become a witch and passed her Calling, but it has come at a steep price. Her grandmother is dead, her cousin hates her, and now she must lead her family as their Matriarch. While struggling with her newfound gifts, she has a vision of the future that includes her former boyfriend, Luc. How will she protect her family and the witch community from this deadly premonition, and will she have to take down the boy she loves to do it?

It was so great to be returning to finish this series. I loved the characters and their complexities, and felt like it was a purposeful and well thought out plot. There were parts in the middle that felt like the book was dragging, then a huge plot point would hit and get me sucked back in! It is hard to write a great sequel and this book definitely checked all the boxes. If you’re looking for a good witchy book read the Blood Like duology!

Read if you love:

🩵Second chance romance

🧙🏿‍♀️Witches

🌈 LGBTQ+ rep

✊🏾 Black/Brown rep

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the-worlds-between-pages · 4 months

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Tender Beasts by: Liselle Sambury

Published by: Simon Schuster Publication Date: 2 27 2024 I received an eARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thanks to them and the publisher. Now, where do I even start to review this book? Liselle Sambury excels in her fourth YA Book. A story about the Beher family after the loss of their Matriarch. A rich family in Canada that runs an academy that allows low…

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#5 stars #Liselle Sambury #Tender Beasts #thriller #ya #ya horror #ya mystery #ya supernatrual #young adult

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blackfemmecharacterdependency · 2 years

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Going to finish this duology. The audiobooks reader is the same too.

#Nesha Reads #Nesha Reads Blood Like Fate #Nesha Reads The Blood Like Magic Duology #Blood Like Fate #Liselle Sambury #Joniece Abbott Pratt

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giftideasfromaycaramba · 7 months

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Daisy sees dead people—something impossible to forget in bustling, ghost-packed Toronto. She usually manages to deal with her unwanted ability, but she’s completely unprepared to be dumped by her boyfriend. So when her mother inherits a secluded mansion in northern Ontario where she spent her childhood summers, Daisy jumps at the chance to escape. But the house is nothing like Daisy expects, and she begins to realize that her experience with the supernatural might be no match for her mother’s secrets, nor what lurks within these walls…

A decade later, Brittney is desperate to get out from under the thumb of her abusive mother, a bestselling author who claims her stay at “Miracle Mansion” allowed her to see the error of her ways. But Brittney knows that’s nothing but a sham. She decides the new season of her popular Haunted web series will uncover what happened to a young Black girl in the mansion ten years prior and finally expose her mother’s lies. But as she gets more wrapped up in the investigation, she’ll have to decide: if she can only bring one story to light, which one matters most—Daisy’s or her own?

As Brittney investigates the mansion in the present, Daisy’s story runs parallel in the past, both timelines propelling the girls to face the most dangerous monsters of all: those that hide in plain sight.

#givebooks #bookswelove #aycarambabooks #shopsmall #books #ghoststories #thrillers #suspense #liselle sambury

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starrlikesbooks · 2 years

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One more month of Summer! Check out some of these cool August books! 🌞

As always, check under the cut for more on each~

It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano is one of my favorite books of the year, and one I'd recommend to any a-spec person and/or any marching band nerd! This is a marching band centered coming of age with a lot of identity growth and a little romance too.

Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury is the long awaited sequel to the scifi-fantasy, Black-fronted "kill your lover" Blood Like Magic. If you've been looking forward to seeing what Voya does next and how her hard choices play our after the fact, you'll really enjoy this closer to the story!

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall is another I've already read, and I can vouch for the spooky haunted house meets untrustworthy family swarmy enough to rival the Thrombeys from Knives Out. If you like your horror feminist and a bit gothic, you may really love the atmosphere of this one. This is also sapphic, with a witchy side romance.

The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones is a rag tag crew story, a heist story, and a fantasy about revolution. This story is also in the same universe as Lloyd-Jones' folklore zombie story, The Bones Houses. This also has a main character who seems to be bi.

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala is another horror, this one pastoral, trippy, and through a lens of marginalization. This book has a genderfluid protagonist, who wants nothing but to understand his twin sister's shocking death, but finds himself lured into something as dangerous as it is impossible. This book also has some INTENSE body horror by the end, so take that as a pro or a con!

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez is the only book on this list I haven't read! This is a Godpunk fantasy about two warriors setting out to free a captive god, and depose their tyrant rulers. This book looks so COOL and the cover alone makes me so excited.

#book list #books #august books #queer books #the drowned woods #the spear cuts through water #the honeys #queer horror #it sounds like this #asexual book #aroace #anna meriano #blood like fate #blood like magic #liselle sambury #castorstarr

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marvelousgeeks · 7 months

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Liselle Sambury’s debut novel, Blood Like Magic, is an urban fantasy set in the near future in Toronto. With BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ representation, it features a great cast of characters that feel fully fleshed out. There is also a fascinating magic system that draws on familial ties and adds to the family drama throughout the series. While the world Sambury created is not perfect, it is one we could aspire to get to with much more acceptance and some really cool tech. (This is me formally saying I would like some more solar punk books, and I think this approaches that genre.)

In Blood Like Magic, we follow Voya Thomas as she becomes a witch like the other members of her family. To do so, she must pass her calling, a task her ancestors gave each member of the family with magic to receive their gift and be able to use magic. Voya’s task involves an impossible choice: She must either destroy her first love or her family’s magic. In the case of the latter, her sister’s life will be lost as it’s tied to their family’s magic. Voya starts off very indecisive, which makes this task even more difficult for her. But first, she needs to fall in love. The rest of her task comes later.

#blood like magic #liselle sambury #romance novels

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bookcoversonly · 1 year

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Title: Blood Like Magic | Author: Liselle Sambury | Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry (2021)

#books #Blood Like Magic #Liselle Sambury

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bigdreamsandwildthings · 8 months

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Review: Delicious Monsters (Liselle Sambury)

Rating: ★★★★.5/5

“I left the forgotten Black girl inside of me. The one who desperately wanted those phone calls from my mom. The one who thought she could never amount to anything. Could never really be loved by anyone. Who thought she would always be her mother’s daughter.

Today that girl saved another one like her. And that means something.”

This was twisty and dark and unsettling, and I devoured it.

Daisy has seen ghosts her entire life, and she's struggled with how different that makes her. Her mom struggles alongside her, and now, all Daisy wants is to get them to a better place so that maybe one day, she can move away and start her own life. When they inherit a mansion in northern Ontario, it seems like the perfect opportunity to get away and find a better situation for themselves, but there are ghosts lurking there that have more in store for Daisy than she knows. Meanwhile, Brittany has her own connections to the "Miracle Mansion", 10 years in the future, and is determined to unearth the truth of the house that changes lives.

I love a haunted house story, and this does have that element to it, but right away it felt different. I loved Blood Like Magic, but then despised Blood Like Fate, so I didn't know what to expect from Liselle going in; however, she shines writing this kind of blend of horror and contemporary YA with something important to say, and this ultimately shone way more than her first series overall for me.

Neither Daisy nor Brittany is a particularly likeable character. Daisy is trying to find herself in the midst of what she's been told she is for her whole life, and understandably, she does that in a man - until he breaks her heart. Brittany is completely mistrustful of everyone, and in the industry she's in, I feel like she has to be; even those she says are her friends, she treats like she's just waiting for them to betray her.

However, these are Black girls who have gone through it in their lives. They have complicated relationships with their mothers that are truly at the heart of the story being told, and I didn't think they had to be likeable. They were resilient, and nuanced, and I wanted them to have what was best for them, no matter what their moms said about that.

I loved the horror side of this one, and I wanted more of it. Some things are written so grotesquely that I had to put the book down and recompose myself a few times, but this element feels like it gets lost as the book progresses.

I also just wanted more explanations for some of those horror-y things that happen. What the FUCK is the deal with the maggots?! That will haunt me for the rest of my days I think, and having a logical explanation would've helped.

Again, this is such a well-written, genre-bending book that has big themes that it deals with really well. I am still thinking about it a week after finishing it, and I know I will be for a long time.

#booklr #book photography #book picture #book review #delicious monsters #liselle sambury #bookworm #bibliophile #ya fiction #ya fantasy #ya horror #book community #book aesthetic #book lover #book nerd #read this book #my photos #my reviews #mine

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bookaddict24-7 · 2 years

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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (August 9th, 2022)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Cake Eater by Allyson Dahlin

How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

The Undead Truth of Us by Britney S. Lewis

New Sequels:

Blood Like Fate (Blood Like Magic #2) by Liselle Sambury

Furysong (The Aurelian Cycle #3) by Rosaria Munda

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Happy reading!

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desdasiwrites · 1 year

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Tomorrow I’ll have to face my Calling. One of my ancestors will appear before me and give me a task that I need to complete to come into my magic and get my gift.

–Liselle Sambury, Blood Like Magic

#book quote of the day #liselle sambury #blood like magic #beautiful cover #Trinidadian Canadian author #debut novel #urban fantasy #Voya Thomas #magic and witches #black protagonist #diverse reads #scifi books #ya #reading

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ihavetosays-blog · 11 months

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Blood like Fate by Liselle Sambury

SYNOPSIS After the fallout of getting her gift, Voya has to live with the decisions of her choices. Keis is pissed, barely hanging out with her or anyone in the family. The family has run out of product from Granny for the business, and can’t figure out how to replicate it, putting them at risk to moss out on clients and money. Voya still struggles with having her family’s trust and respect. She…

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#black blogger #black books #black reviewer #blood like fate #book review #bookreview #books #booktok #fantasy #favorite book #liselle Sambury #urban fantasy #witches

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