She’s been locked inside an apartment in Miami the first 16 years of her life with her mother and an old woman who took them in, because her golden eyes with star pupils betray her as not being human. This relationship is illegal and cause for her and her parents to be executed if they were to ever be caught.

Not just any lobizana, she’s the result of a forbidden love between the notorious lobizon, Fierro, and a human mother. So when Manu arrives in this world, she tries to fake being a bruja, because that must be who she is, right? There’s no way she could have entered into this world unless she had magic.īut it ends up she’s not a bruja. But in this world, girls are brujas (witches) and boys are lobizones (werewolves). While her mother sits in a detention facility awaiting deportation, Manu is in a whole new world with people like her. There’s the world she’s running from and a world she’s running towards. The first 90% is Manu’s search for her identity, home, and place in this world. A world where her unusual eyes allow her to belong.Īs Manu uncovers her own story and traces her real heritage all the way back to a cursed city in Argentina, she learns it’s not just her U.S. A world straight out of Argentine folklore, where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a bruja and the seventh consecutive son is a lobizón, a werewolf. A world connected to her dead father and his criminal past. Without a home, without answers, and finally without shackles, Manu investigates the only clue she has about her past–a mysterious “Z” emblem-which leads her to a secret world buried within our own. Her surrogate grandmother is attacked, lifelong lies are exposed, and her mother is arrested by ICE. Until Manu’s protective bubble is shattered. As an undocumented immigrant who’s on the run from her father’s Argentine crime-family, Manu is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami, Florida. Manuela Azul has been crammed into an existence that feels too small for her. This is book one in this new series and it is amazing. The last 10% of the book had me wrapped up thinking, NO FRIGGIN WAY!

witches and werewolves), and it is something else. I just finished reading this incredible YA fantasy about brujas and lobizones (i.e.

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