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This page-turning debut novel will entice fans who like their paranormal romances dark and disturbing. It's a natural next-read for fans of Stephanie Meyer, Carrie Jones, and Becca Fitzpatrick. But instead of mythical creatures, blood magic has everything to do with primal human desires like power, wealth, and immortality. Everywhere Silla Kennicott turns she sees blood. She can't stop thinking about her parents alleged murder-suicide. She is consumed by a book filled with spells that arrives mysteriously in the mail. The spells share one common ingredient: blood, and Silla is more than willing to cast a few. What's a little spilled blood if she can uncover the truth? And then there's Nick—the new guy at school who makes her pulse race. He has a few secrets of his own and is all too familiar with the lure of blood magic. Drawn together by a combination of fate and chemistry, Silla and Nick must find out who else in their small Missouri town knows their secret and will do anything to take the book and magic from Silla.
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From the Author:
A Letter from Author Tessa Gratton
I often describe Blood Magic as being a novel about teenagers, kissing, and cemeteries. There are a lot of other things going on, of course. Magic and bloodletting, to be obvious. The interaction of history with our lives. Sacrifice and power and immortality. The sins of the fathers. More kissing. But every iteration of the novel, from the first baby draft, has circled in some way around cemeteries. A character at one point says, “I think the cemetery is at the center of everything.” He means it specifically, but it’s also a thematic statement. Cemeteries are at the center of everything in Blood Magic. Like many people, I’ve been fascinated with them for years: the hard lines of a military cemetery, the wet death-cities in New Orleans, the crowded hillside of tall, narrow headstones near my house in Japan. We learn so much about ourselves and our relationship with death by looking at our death rituals. In many ways, a cemetery is a mask that hides the worst parts of death from us. There is nothing gruesome about a cemetery, or dirty. Instead we mark graves with pale stone, write simple words of comfort or dates to remember there. It’s a place to grieve and lay down flowers. For some of us, a cemetery can be a place of inspiration. A direct connection to the past. They offer a record of lives spreading out in front of you, of people who stood on the same ground, who laughed and worked and loved in the area. The atmosphere of a cemetery can at once be beautiful and hushed with tragedy. Echoes of powerful emotion linger under trees and in small toys left against headstones. Even under the full sun, I can’t stand in a cemetery without feeling some part of me cold and aware of the earth under my feet. There are ghosts there, and flocks of crows. Who wouldn’t want to set a novel in such a place? Who wouldn’t want to tap into all that energy? In the end, Blood Magic is about two kids learning about what’s important, and what you have to let go of to grow up. (And kissing.) It would have been impossible to tell the story without exploring the role of death in their lives--without giving them a cemetery in which to find their lives. And when my time comes, I, personally, would like a fiery ship burial.
About the Author:
I often describe Blood Magic as being a novel about teenagers, kissing, and cemeteries. There are a lot of other things going on, of course. Magic and bloodletting, to be obvious. The interaction of history with our lives. Sacrifice and power and immortality. The sins of the fathers. More kissing. But every iteration of the novel, from the first baby draft, has circled in some way around cemeteries. A character at one point says, “I think the cemetery is at the center of everything.” He means it specifically, but it’s also a thematic statement. Cemeteries are at the center of everything in Blood Magic. Like many people, I’ve been fascinated with them for years: the hard lines of a military cemetery, the wet death-cities in New Orleans, the crowded hillside of tall, narrow headstones near my house in Japan. We learn so much about ourselves and our relationship with death by looking at our death rituals. In many ways, a cemetery is a mask that hides the worst parts of death from us. There is nothing gruesome about a cemetery, or dirty. Instead we mark graves with pale stone, write simple words of comfort or dates to remember there. It’s a place to grieve and lay down flowers. For some of us, a cemetery can be a place of inspiration. A direct connection to the past. They offer a record of lives spreading out in front of you, of people who stood on the same ground, who laughed and worked and loved in the area. The atmosphere of a cemetery can at once be beautiful and hushed with tragedy. Echoes of powerful emotion linger under trees and in small toys left against headstones. Even under the full sun, I can’t stand in a cemetery without feeling some part of me cold and aware of the earth under my feet. There are ghosts there, and flocks of crows. Who wouldn’t want to set a novel in such a place? Who wouldn’t want to tap into all that energy? In the end, Blood Magic is about two kids learning about what’s important, and what you have to let go of to grow up. (And kissing.) It would have been impossible to tell the story without exploring the role of death in their lives--without giving them a cemetery in which to find their lives. And when my time comes, I, personally, would like a fiery ship burial.
TESSA GRATTON has wanted to be a paleontologist or a wizard since she was seven. She was too impatient to hunt dinosaurs, but is still searching for someone to teach her magic. After traveling the world with her military family, she acquired a BA (and the important parts of an MA) in Gender Studies, then settled down in Kansas with her partner, her cats, and her mutant dog. You can visit Tessa at TessaGratton.com.
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- PublisherRandom House Books for Young Readers
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0375967338
- ISBN 13 9780375967337
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages416
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