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For fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic as one girl's dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future. Katrell can talk to the dead. And she wishes it made more money. She’s been able to support her unemployed mother—and Mom’s deadbeat-boyfriend-of-the-week—so far, but it isn’t enough. Money’s still tight, and to complicate things, Katrell has started to draw attention. Not from this world—from beyond. And it comes with a warning: STOP or there will be consequences. Katrell is willing to call the ghosts on their bluff; she has no choice. What do ghosts know of having sleep for dinner? But when her next summoning accidentally raises someone from the dead, Katrell realizes that a live body is worth a lot more than a dead apparition. And, warning or not, she has no intention of letting this lucrative new business go. Only magic isn’t free, and dark forces are coming to collect. Now Katrell faces a choice: resign herself to poverty, or confront the darkness before it’s too late.
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Katrell is abused emotionally and physically by adults in her life and works to the bone trying to afford rent, food, and (perhaps subconsciously) her mother's affection. This book... there are so many sad moments as we watch Katrell injure herself in order to survive and not know when to quit because there is no guarantee things will get better.
It is very emotional and I was so nervous wondering just how far she would fall. There were some moments that seemed a bit OTT or just didn't make sense, but for the most part this is a great book. The ending is so emotional and such a relief, I teared up a bit.
The narration was fantastic. Will say, I listened to it at x2.5 in order to get through all the pain she was forced to endure, but I still thought the narrator did a great job with all the different voices.
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