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caylieratzlaff 's review for:
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy
by Angie Thomas
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC of this novel. 4/5 stars.
Angie Thomas is always a must-read for me, so I was super excited to receive her middle grade (and fantasy) debut as an ARC. I absolutely devoured this after I got into it, and I loved the twists and turns combined with magic (but not normal magic) and Black history and families and a diabolical plot and issues with being labeled the chosen one and you know, other normal stuff 12 year olds go through like figuring out who they are.
Nic (cough cough, named for nic stone??) discovers her Dad was hiding a rather large secret from her during their years together where he trains her in the history of their world -- Manifestors (magical beings) and hellhoudns and aziza and rougarous and all the other things and many black folktales while also telling the history of her ancestors. BUT her dad also hides a pretty big secret from her that she ends up having to reconcile with to also save him from a crime he didn't commit.
There were also MANY funny parts in this story. I overall enjoyed it. While I know this sets up more books in a series, I wish there would've been more on how the magic worked and more of that world building besides some brief history on how it came to be.
Angie Thomas is always a must-read for me, so I was super excited to receive her middle grade (and fantasy) debut as an ARC. I absolutely devoured this after I got into it, and I loved the twists and turns combined with magic (but not normal magic) and Black history and families and a diabolical plot and issues with being labeled the chosen one and you know, other normal stuff 12 year olds go through like figuring out who they are.
Nic (cough cough, named for nic stone??) discovers her Dad was hiding a rather large secret from her during their years together where he trains her in the history of their world -- Manifestors (magical beings) and hellhoudns and aziza and rougarous and all the other things and many black folktales while also telling the history of her ancestors. BUT her dad also hides a pretty big secret from her that she ends up having to reconcile with to also save him from a crime he didn't commit.
There were also MANY funny parts in this story. I overall enjoyed it. While I know this sets up more books in a series, I wish there would've been more on how the magic worked and more of that world building besides some brief history on how it came to be.