Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas, #1)

by Zoraida Córdova

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This is the story of a girl who due to her Some traumatic childhood situations has decided she hates who she is and does not want any part of her family Bruja magic. At her death day party, she makes a decision to alter that path which her family is thrusting her down. She wishes to lose her powers and not become a Bruja witch. Instead of getting what she wants her whole family disappears and she off on a journey to another world to find them. The first part of the book actually really set the tone of the story for me cause that where you get all the info dumping. Usually, that can make a story really sink and fast but if your not familiar with the background of Bruja, death day, and Mexican religion you need some groundwork to be laid. I think the author did a great job of this and I was able to follow along with the story.
The second half of the book is the real meat of our story as that when Alex really starts to learn about what she has given up, our romance comes which thankfully was not given away in the blurb, and the world building between Brooklyn and Los Lagos really make the story unique.

I love the main lesson of this story is that we all want to be ordinary especially in our teen years. But what is ordinary, instead this story teaches us that we are all unique and as you wander the maze with Alex and discover that we are all built to be a certain way and we are not just some mold that acts and reacts like everyone else. This is a lesson all teens and some adults need to learn what makes us different is what makes us you.

The epilogue sets us up really well to follow in the next book in the series and excited to see what happens to Alex now that she accepted really and truly who she is.