1/6/2023 0 Comments Voya media player review![]() I had some simple rules for the magic system: I knew that characters had to use blood to cast magic spells. But with Blood Like Magic, because it was already 10 days into National Novel Writing Month, I dove straight into it with minimal planning. The way I write books now is I plot them very meticulously and I plan out a lot of things ahead of time. "Interestingly enough, I wrote this book differently to how I write books today. Being Black in Canada: Highlights the stories and experiences of Black Canadians." Blood Like Magic started with very simple components that ended up being built up significantly over time." I've always loved both fantasy and sci-fi, and so it wasn't completely out of left field for me to combine both genres. I ended up setting the book in the near-future because that sounded fun and different to me. "I started with an image of a girl in a bath of blood. I had to figure out what she was doing there and what was going on in that situation, all within the context of that idea of a family of Black witches. I thought that if I set Blood Like Magic in Toronto, I could kind of reconnect with my hometown. At the time, I was living in northern Ontario and I was feeling quite homesick - it was the first time I was living that far from my family and friends. I thought that if I set Blood Like Magic in Toronto, I could reconnect with my hometown. But I had this idea stuck in my head about writing about a family of Black witches. "When I decided to start writing this book, I was actually working on a different book. It's about 16-year-old Voya Thomas who is given the impossible task of either killing her first love or losing her family's magic forever. " Blood Like Magic is about a family of Black witches living in a near-future Toronto. ![]() Sambury spoke with CBC Books about writing Blood Like Magic. But when Voya does eventually fall in love with her soulmate, she is forced to make the choice between her morality and her duty to her bloodline. Sambury's debut YA novel Blood Like Magic, is a dark fantasy story about Voya Thomas, a teen witch who is tasked with sacrificing her first love to save her family's magic. ![]() Liselle Sambury is a Trinidadian Canadian YA author and vlogger from Toronto, currently residing in northern Ontario. ![]()
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