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Blood Magic

af Tessa Gratton

Serier: The Blood Journals (1)

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In Yaleylah, Missouri, teens Silla and Nick, drawn together by loss and a shared family history of blood magic practitioners, are plunged into a world of dark magic as they try to unravel the mystery of Silla's parents' apparent murder suicide.
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It took me a fairly long time to get into this book (at least two months, probably more) and sit down and really read it. This was one of the YA PNR debuts that I was looking forward to the most this year so that confused me a great deal. I picked up the book, I began reading it but my attention kept wandering. Instead of being riveted to the page I let myself get distracted by other books or by TV shows or schoolwork. Its not because it was boring, or badly written...just kind of there. I think sometimes the problem with enjoying a specific genre so very much (in this case YA paranormal) is that you over-indulge and can't properly enjoy yourself after a while.

What did stand out was that Gratton, despite using some of the common YA PNR cliches (insta-love/soulmates, flowery prose, blatant obliviousness to character inconsistencies) also subverted some. Neither Silla nor Nicholas was well-versed in witchcraft, they learned at an equal pace and thus we were spared from Silla constantly needing Nicholas to save her because he had more experience. Silla has a fairly good reason to be distrustful of practically everyone she meets (though this doesn't stop her from making boneheaded decisions). There is also a strong sense of family, despite the tragedy that besets them and the bond between Silla and Reese is a welcome addition to a genre that is saturated with only children. Surprises do occur, though the mystery may feel a little too easy to solve if you watch as many police procedurals and detective shows as I watch.

Unfortunately it was hard for me to stay focused throughout the novel and to remember some of the details needed to really understand how the 'mystery' all came together. I had to re-read the ending a couple of times because for some reason it wasn't sticking in my brain that the motive was being detailed out. I also admit I was distracted by the back and forth nature of the POV's. While I appreciate multiple POV's much of the time, when I'm having trouble getting into a book its just one more thing to throw me off course. (There is also the matter that Silla and Nicholas didn't feel fully developed despite the multiple POVs, or maybe because of them--I think Gratton relied fairly heavily on their various views helping to add depth to their character instead of showing that depth)

In all this wasn't a bad book by any means. It just didn't stand out to me as much as it probably should have. ( )
  lexilewords | Dec 28, 2023 |
Ehhhhh. I did not like any of the characters in this, they were all boring and flat and ... stereotypical. Like I've seen them and their tragic backstories in a hundred books before. The only character I liked was grandma Judy (and kinda Mary/Lilith too if I'm being honest) but she (they) was severly underused, of course.

I never felt like it was going anywhere? Stuff that felt like the climax of the book happened with a hundred pages left and then it was like ... okay?? Now what??? There was no big revelations left at the end of the book so it just kinda happened.

Also, why can girls only have short hair in books due to some sort of trauma? Gods forbid she just wants to cut it short for some fucking reason, noo, gotta be plot or trauma or something. Girls need to have a long hair!! Otherwise how will we know they are in fact girls?

I did like the general atmosphere of the book though, which is why it's getting two stars. Like, if someone did a moodboard of it then I would love that. So that was cool. The rest, not so much. ( )
  upontheforemostship | Feb 22, 2023 |
Bloody good! Totally interesting spin on witchery & POV switches flawlessly. ( )
  nicoleolea | Jun 12, 2019 |
This book reminds me of the Secret Circle (tv series, haven;t read the books and not planning to) and that makes me sad because I want the Secret Circle to come back! Why'd you cancel it, CW? It was Awesome. I turned on the tv every Thursday night in time for the Vampire Diaries, but I was only watching TVD so I could watch TSC!!!! D:
Yeah, that being said, this actually is VERY similar to TSC. I liked it, tho, despite the similarity, it was original. Instead of there being six withces, there were only three, and there was a big conspiraccy, and ther parents were involved in said conspiracy, but not in the same way. also, no witch hunters, but Nick is totally Jake, and that's even weirder, bcuz in TSC Jake has a brother named Nick, and I was obviously feeling a lot of TSC nostalgia while reading this book, can you tell?
and, Oh, my god, Reese! I cried.
yeah, there's a lot of crows here, as in TSC, if you remember. my nostalgia for TSCs tarted with the cover, becuase the birds on the cover of this book reminded me of the birds in the TSC theme (I can't call it a full song, cuz it wasn't, but if you watched TSC, you know what I;m talking about about the birds)
there was more blood in this one than in TSC.
okay, let's not keep up pretenses, this whole review is just me missing TSC.
this book had a good cliffhanger, though, so I'll be reading the next one.
Bring TSC back to life!!! ( )
  Monica_P | Nov 22, 2018 |
I knew I had to pick this book up from the beginning, because come on, witches? I'm a huge fan of magic, and I knew that Tessa Graton's story would be a dark one. The book begins by introducing us to our two main characters, Silla and Nick and their meeting in the cemetery that binds them together. Both are written from a first person POV, which really helps us get into the main character's heads. Both of the characters have great voices here, seemingly very normal people but with really interesting quirks that separate them from the card-board cutouts, which I love. I particularly liked Nick's voice, and was hooked in within a few moments of him on the page.

But I think what really impressed me about the writing was the subtly that Gratton used here. It can be easy to slip into too much telling with first person narrators, but in Blood Magic we learned everything about Silla and Nick at just the right pace. Silla never came out and told the reader about her love of theatre, we learned it more and more as we got to know her, which was really refreshing. More so, the duel povs switch quite frequently, which gave us a more rounded view of some scenes. Her passages and chapters tended to be a little shorter for this, so if you don't have a long time to read, you can always sneak in a chapter or two on a lunch break.

I think what really made me love Blood Magic were the passages all throughout the book from the POV of her villain, Josephine. Not only were we able to sympathize with her villain through these diary entries from her, but we're able to get a glimpse into the darker parts of the magic that Nick and Silla haven't gotten to, yet, and it grew tension and created an air of mystery. Who is this woman? Why is she important?

I'm pretty sure I could go on all day about her characters. Each one was fresh and true to themselves. (My favorite was Reese, of course!) They were the strength and the heart of this book. Not to mention that she puts so much effort into the ambiance, making the cemetery and forest itself come alive as its very own character.

The pace wasn't overly fast, but it had just enough tension and mystery to make putting it down impossible. I loved the ending it all it’s heartbreaking, insane, disturbing glory, and would highly recommend this for anyone who's looking for an urban fantasy with a bit of a different twist.

Overall: 5/5 stars. ( )
  KatCarson | Nov 23, 2017 |
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